Mid autumn festival

One thing I totally forget to tell you about when I went on a trip with my host family in the begining of October.

The thing is in China, everyone have their holiday at the same time, you don't choose when to have your vaccation. This year, we had 8 days off from the 29th of September until October 1th. My family went on a one week trip to Jiangxi province. We first stayed in a house to some friends of the family for a few days, here I discovered so many culture differences. Here on the country side, people still grow their own food and some people wash their clothes in the river. I was so chocked to see this in the country that is moving so fast and is the "future", and we still have things like this.


Washing clothes




During these days, a festival took place - something called the Mid autumn festival, or moon festival. This festival's date is on the 15th of the 8th lunar moon (the chinese calender that depends on the moon, I can't really explain it cause I don't understand it..). We celebrated with watching the full moon and eating moon cake which is a traditional chinese dish to eat this time a year, for the celebration of the moon. Sometimes it's with meat filling, sometimes it's sweet. We all shared song and poems about the moon, it was really nice. The day after was the national day of the republic of China.


Moon cake and other 点心

Mao Zedong, ofc.
Cooking food over a fire, different
Sitting by the fire where they cook food

Small shrimps, so cute

Can you believe that this is a toilet in someones home?

Tea plants

Tea leaves
More tea haha
 
Then we countinued our trip to climb mountains for 3 days. We started at 明月山 (ming yue shan) and finished at Wu gong shan. It was a 3-days long walk and we camped the first night in a tent - WHICH WAS FREEZING, but the next night we could sleep in a bed in some kind of house. We climbed and walked 70-80 kilometers, up and down for I don't know how many mountain tops. I passed by a lot of people who always said hello to me, and had a lot of people who wanted to take pictures with me - something that often happens to me as a foreigner in China.

Waiting for a car to drive us there
I love this fruit, looks like a huge orange haha
On our way up to the cableway
First night

Good morning haha
Starting our hiking
So beautiful
Me and mother

Someone killed this chicken..



Ugh all the insects, they are so huge here....

It was so beautiful, so many mountains!

All those mountains, up and down..
Sunset
Sunrise

So nice and clean after those days....

So when we were back from the mountains we took a shower haha. Not only that but we went to visit some hot springs where you could in water right from the mountain. Some of the water was too hot, I couldn't bare it but it was nice to relax a little after those days.


In the normal city they have these hot springs open for everyone to, so a lot of people go their to have a hot bath for their feet and so on.

The hot spring in the city
 
Visited the market in the city, they sell like everything their as you can see. It was interesting but terrible to see some things there..

Our family plus friends


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