Nansheng Liu’s Inspirations
During the Chinese New Year of 1998, I returned to China and was lucky enough to engage in local celebration events and temple festivals in Wugang City of Hunan Province. After years of being away, the rural festivities still made a deep impression on me.
Crowding onto the streets filled...
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During the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) Dynasties, China went through the Little Ice Age. During the two cold waves in the early Qing Dynasty, even Lake Dongting and Lake Poyang in Southern China had frozen over. The capital, Beijing, counted more than 150 extraordinarily cold days each year,...
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Nansheng Liu’s Inspirations
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