Summer of 2009: Mengding 3

Dai people live in warm and wet areas. The climate contributes a lot not only to their wealthy lives, but also to the good environment around their villages. Dai people love nature very much. In old times they live in bamboo houses. Although now they build with bricks and cement, every family still own a yard with their houses. In the yard the plant all kinds of fruits, beans, melons, flowers and trees. Amount the plants fly all kind of butterflies and bees. How I wish I had such a garden!

Now let's see what Dai people have in their garden?

Summer of 2009: Mengding 1

Mengding（Here）is an small but important village between China and Myanmar. It is 130km away from Cangyuan. My uncle has worked there for ten years when he was young. So we decided to go there to visit some of his old friends.

Sculpture of three Wa people.

The road was constructed alone the Nangun River, and lot of waterfalls was falling from the mountains in rainy season.

Summer of 2009: Wa People’s Village

Wengding is one of the reserved typical Wa-styled village. These thatched cottages are homes to Wa people living in mountains.

People work and keep livestocks on the ground while sleep on the second floor in case of beasts.

Summer of 2009: The Tiankeng And Rock Painting

One thing that makes the Wa Nationality culture famous is the rock painting discoverd in 1965. More than 3,000 years’ history makes it one of the most historical rock paintings of China.

A Wa-styled village. The art works are hidden in the cliff mountains behind it.

Summer of 2009: the Guangyun Mian Temple

Guangyun Mian Temple, locates north of Cangyuan, is more than 170 years old. It is one of the most influential Theravada Buddhist places in southeast of China. The temple is a mixture of Dai style temple with Han architectural building. You can see beautiful wood engraved works in the window pane, and the murals inside are famous. We visited there the second day morning. That few people was there because of the remoteness contributes to the peacefulness…

The east side of the temple. The yard is too small to step back for a integral shot of the building.

Summer of 2009: Rainforest 1

This summer I went my home: Yunnan Province, China. Yunnan is famous for its diversity of terrain, climate, ecosystem and life. During the holiday I visited some places in south and southwest of the province, where more creatures could be found. The very fisrt place I want to show you is the rainforest of the Green Water River near Manhao (Find out the location here). We have stayed there for only one day because there are no place to live. A few days later I retured with my parents again. My time is so limited today and more pictures will be posted in the following days.

The overview of the rainforest

odd tropical floras

fungi at the bottom of the forest

the fruits of some kind of fan palm

To be continued

Feast

Place: Beijing Botanical Garden
Date: 4/25/2009

Tulips in Garden

I am terribly sorry that I posted nothing last week. I have a lot to share but somehow I was lazy these days…not lazy when I hold a camera. I keep taking photos in this flourishing spring. Then countless photos stuff in my hard disk, most are spam. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with them and I have no time to sort one by one. This is really a trouble in Digital Age.

Today’s sunshine made me rush to the Botanical Garden recklessly again, though I have just visited it last week. I was intending the nymphs of Cordulegasteridae. Meanwhile, the beautiful tulips are blooming! Wonderful scene!

Camera: SONY DSC-H1 (my friend’s)

Still Life 1: Lily Flower

This yellow lily flower is used for our botany experiment last term. Because we were the last class of the experiment, so I took one of the rest flowers to my dormitory, posed and shot.

Can you guess what the black background was? Haha, that’s a pair of my black pants!

Grassland Flowers 7

It’s spring now. Flowers are blooming and insects are buzzing. So I’m busy with them.

This is the last post of the Bashang Grassland trip series. After this, I’m going to post what I found and what I did in spring. Of course, I’ll share my other trip/outdoor stories and photos here in the future.

Unknown Species
Place: Datan Grassland
Date: 7/8/2008

Family: Ranunculaceae
Species:Paeonia obovata Maxim.
Place: Yudaokou
Date: 7/9/2008

Family: Scrophulariaceae
Species: Veronica sp.
Place: General Pond
Date: 7/10/2008

Family: Labiatae
Species: Thymus vulgaris L.
Place: General Pond
Date: 7/10/2008

Family: Boraginaceae
Species: Myosotis Sylvatica
Place: Jixielinchang
Date: 7/11/2008

Family: Polemoniaceae
Species: Polemonium villosum
Place: Jixielinchang
Date: 7/11/2008

Family: Rosaceae
Species: Potentilla sp.
Place: General Pond
Date: 7/10/2008

Family: Scrophulariaceae
Species: Cymbaria sp.
Place: Datan Grassland
Date: 7/8/2008

Family: Plumbaginaceae
Species: Limonium bicolor
Place: Duolun
Date: 7/8/2008

Grassland Flowers 6: “xxx sp.”

Family: Leguminosae
Species: Astragalus sp.
Place: Datan Grassland

Family: Polygonaceae
Species: Polygonum sp.
Place: Yudaokou

Family: Geraniaceae
Species: Geranium sp.
Place: Yudaokou

Family: Leguminosae
Species: Astragalus sp.
Place: General Pond

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Species: Silene sp.
Place: Jixielinchang

Family: Liliaceae
Species: Allium sp.
Place: Moon Lake

Family: Geraniaceae
Species: Geranium sp.
Place: Moon Lake

Reference：http://www.cvh.ac.cn/index.asp

Grassland Flowers 5

Family: Liliaceae
Species: Allium tenuissimum Linn.
Place: Datan Grassland

Family: Leguminosae
Species: Trifolium lupinaster Linn.
Place: General Pond

Family: Liliaceae
Species: Hemerocallis citrina Baroni
Place: Yudaokou

Family: Rosaceae
Species: Rosa davurica Pall.
Place: Yudaokou

Family: Linaceae
Species: Linum usitatissimum Linn. (flax)
Place: Datan Grassland

Family: Leguminosae
Species: Vicia unijuga A. Br.
Place: Datan Grassland

Family: Campanulaceae
Species: Campanula puncatata Lam.
Place: Yudaokou

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Species: Dianthus chinensis Linn.
Place: General Pond

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Species: Dianthus superbus Linn.
Place: Jixielinchang 

Family: Onagraceae
Species: Epilobium angustifolium Linn.
Place: Jixielinchang 

Family: Geraniaceae
Species: Geranium pratense Linn.
Place: Jixielinchang 

Reference: http://www.cvh.ac.cn/index.asp