[Leica] Xi'an

[tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)]

I took lots of photos of the mosque in Xi-an.  Here are a couple:

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/79696607

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/79696618

More photos of people than the mosque, though.

Tina

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Peter,
> Thanks for looking. The mosque is in very good condition, and in heavy use,
> but it is a Chinese style building, not a domed mosque that is common
> everywhere else. I generally do not photograph these historic, over
> photographed buildings, mainly because I seldom find anything new about
> them to visually show, and generally  just use them as backdrops. Here is
> video from the internet:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eNZ-8kFK64
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Amazing Jayanand. My personal favourite is the General, but I like the
> > people
> > around Xi'an as well. Do you have any shots of the Mosque itself? I would
> > be
> > interested to see what sort of state it is in.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 13/11/2014 13:35, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> > > The next stop was Xi'an, the home of the Terracotta Army. The Army was
> > > buried to protect the founder of the first dynasty in China. Emperor
> Qin
> > > (of the Qin Dynasty), near his burial mound, from enemies he might
> > > encounter in his afterlife around 210 BC. The figures are 10-15% larger
> > > than life size, as befits a ghost's army, and the detail on their
> bodies
> > is
> > > quite amazing. In due course, everybody forgot about it, until a
> farmer,
> > > digging a well under his lands in 1974, stumbled upon it. The walls had
> > > fallen on the army, grave robbers had stolen the weaponry, and flooding
> > had
> > > ruined the figures as well, leading to a painstaking and gargantuan
> > > reconstruction task. There is enough still hidden here to keep
> > > archeologists busy for a century more, I think - there are supposed to
> be
> > > 60 pits around, full of the emperors help for the hereafter, and only
> 4-5
> > > have been dug up, fully or partially. The Emperor's necropolis has not
> > been
> > > opened as yet for fear of what oxidation would do to the things inside.
> > The
> > > Terracotta Army is very well documented, so here are a few shots from
> the
> > > three pits open to the public, giving an idea of what is there:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1854.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1954.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1884.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1966.jpg.html
> > >
> > > The museum and grounds are wonderfully laid out and maintained for both
> > > maximum safety for the contents, as well as ease of viewing for the
> > hordes
> > > who pass by every year:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1992.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2023.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Xi'an, surprisingly has a big Muslim population, and is home to The
> Great
> > > Mosque and its lovely green grounds. Luckily, on the day we went, there
> > was
> > > a funeral service going on someone important in the community, so there
> > > were quite a few people around.:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2580.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2062.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2596.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2050.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Surrounding the mosque was an enchanting covered market, selling, as
> most
> > > such markets do, utterly flimsy, cheap and useless stuff:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2617.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2622.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2635.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2565.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Everybody was zipping around the bazaar in electric vehicles, either
> > bikes
> > > or tuk-tuks:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2657.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2077.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Finally, people shots to end the first day in Xian:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2063.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2067.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2028.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2098.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Please see LARGE
> > >
> > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
> > >
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> >
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