Shuikou, Zhejiang Province
Four Nights at a Buddhist Temple in the Chinese Countryside


At the temple.


Some of the scenery of Shuikou (water mouth) in northeast Zhejiang Province, four hours from Shanghai proper.


Your narrator, up early (every day we woke at 4am) collecting bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest surrounding the temple.


The incomprehensible local we called "old uncle" digging up bamboo shoots. He must have been seventy and smoked like nobody's business.


Another visitor to the temple. We were in tea country.


At a park with your narrator, Shuikou's Deputy Mo, and two new friends.


Playing the qin in the bamboo forest.

Now it's back to Shanghai. I've already begun teaching again. Tomorrow I return to Chinese classes from this mid-semester break. Hope you enjoyed!