Although the economic boom is rapidly changing the face of China's cities, the more remote and mountainous regions of the country retain much of it's original atmosphere. The traveller who visits the country during the period of Chinese New Year can expect to be welcomed by shamans, the Kitchen God, Spring Couplets and many curious, hospitable villagers.
Surrounded by small stone pagodas, a temple-guard is cleaning up a shrine for burning incense-sticks in the court-yard of the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple at Guangzhou (Canton). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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Surrounded by small stone pagodas, a temple-guard is cleaning up a shrine for burning incense-sticks in the court-yard of the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple at Guangzhou (Canton). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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