Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A special charm of Pingyao




For thousand years, the city walls remained intact. Pingyao International Photography Festival founded in 2001. 
The first time when I heard about Pingyao County was in my undergraduate years. My teacher said they guided some students who went to Pingyao and practiced to take pictures.




















It is the most complete intact county-level-cities. It has been included in The List Of The World Cultural Heritage.The population is 490 thousand.The history of Pingyao ancient county is 2800 years. 
Get up earlier in the morning, then you will see Pingyao shrouded in a haze. You will feel like you are in the ancient China with rooster crows and smoke which is curling up from the kitchen chimneys.

















 In the evening, every store put their products on both sides of street. Visitors streamed in and out of each store.



When you stand in Pingyao County, you will realize there are many foreign visitors walks beside you. I think visitors who are in there, may be have an "ancient" dream like I have.
 

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