Fleming’s Chengdu Spring Festival 2014

Our family has had several days off for the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), not as many as if we were working for a Chinese company, but a welcomed week and a half in dreary January.  As usual, we stayed in Chengdu during the holiday, mainly to enjoy the city of 14 million when the population dwindles to 8 million, the other 6 million having returned to their hometowns to celebrate the holiday.  Yesterday, some new Chinese friends took us on a sightseeing excursion to a small village about an hour out of the city, where we saw an old village, and then up to Chengdu’s famous Great Fake Wall of China – for those without the energy or scratch to make the trip up north.  Here are some pictures from our excursion…

You have to love old Chinese villages!

The entry to the village

The red lamps of New Years

The family plus our friend Dorothy

Putting the kids to work grinding grain

I love this pic – the modern satellite dish on the old Chinese home

An old waterwheel

A most delicious meal was about to be consumed

Just hanging around

Lovely pottery used in a mosaic

Happy family in the village

Aw… mom and daughter

Buying some citrus on the side of the road

Getting artsy with the citrus

The Great Fake Wall of China

The Empress of the Fake Wall

With our friends, climbing the hundreds of stairs

Looking back from whence we came

Dad and son – making memories

Lovely old door

We put them to work early here in China

Ruprecht on the Great Fake Wall

That’s as far as we go… getting cold and starting to rain

Mrs. Fleming and our friend, Dorothy

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