Suzhou

Suzhou is a Venetian-style city with rivers and canals running all through it. One of the results of that is these beautiful bridges. (This is another postcard.)

So you are wondering "What does that say?" It's just a bunch of squiggly lines to me. Caroline says its the name of the bridge.

Some scenes from the Humble Administrator's Garden. The "humble" garden is the largest in China and is a national monument. I guess their administrator's were almost as humble as ours!

 

 

Hmmm. I wonder who's that cute guy with the camera...

Some of the houses are built right up to the edge of the city's canals.

 

Suzhou is famous for its silk embroidery. This picture is handmade with silk. Many of these pictures take a person 6 months, a year, even up to 2 years to complete, working full time on only one picture. But the results are astounding. They also have double-sided images. Most amazingly, they sew some with different images on each side of the same piece of translucent silk!

This is the Tiger Hill Pagoda. It is over 800 years old. At the time, they didn't have cement, as such. So they used a mixture based on sticky rice. (As far as I know, the rice construction technique is not responsible for the leaning.)

 There are many goldfish in China in serious need of vision correction. Due to lack of funding, many of these case go undiagnosed until it is too late. Please, do what you can to help. 

 

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