#shanxi

[miamaimania]

From the "Shanxi" series (2009) ⦿ Zhang Xiao (张晓) — masked figures in rural China

[sinoheritage]

The kang (炕) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold. It is made of bricks or other forms of fired clay and more recently of concrete in some locations.

Sites in Shenyang, Liaoning in Northeast China show humans using heated bed floors as early as 7,200 years ago. Other examples include an unearthed 1st-century building remains in Heilongjiang Province, and another one in a 4th-century palace building in Jilin Province, both also in the Northeast region. Literary evidence from Li Daoyuan's “Commentary on the Water Classic” also gives evidence of heated floors during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386–534 AD).

The kang is used to cook meals and heat the room, producing radiant heat to indirectly warm the interior space as well as the bed mass itself. It has been speculated that one of the oldest forms of Chinese housing, cave dwellings known as yaodong (窰洞), widespread throughout northern China would have been uninhabitable without the kang. https://www.tumblr.com/sinoheritage/775197346221916160/yaodong-%E7%AA%B0-in-native-jin-chinese-or-%E7%AA%B0%E6%B4%9E-in

[sanminzhuyi]

Exhibition on the Mao era at the Chinese Dream Red-Themed Museum, in Dazhai Village, Shanxi province

[filmap]

风流一代 / Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke. 2024

Dance China, Shanxi, Datong, Yunzhong Rd, 新建西路8号 See in map

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[pam3pr]

Baoji, Shanxi Provience, China

2007 / Xiao Zhang

[travelbinge]

By Funlifecrisis

Pingyao, Shanxi, China

[colonel-dynamite-gun]

Shanxi, 2157

The First Contact War

During the fighting on Shanxi, a Turian soldier comes across a wounded Alliance marine. In the aftermath of a firefight he follows a blood trail to find a human slumped against the wall of a destroyed building, clutching at a wound that's surely fatal.

The lock eyes, the human's wide with fear for a moment, then resignation. The Turian lowers his weapon and kneels to eye level with wounded human.

He can't save them, even if the wound wasn't fatal all his medical supplies are for dextro based species. After a moment as their breathing grows heavy, the human opens up a hand and holds it out to him. He gives them a long stare but understands, slowly taking their hand on his own, mindful of his talons on their skin.

The grip is strong, stronger than he'd expected for them, but it seems to help calm the human's nerves. Breath steadies. The embrace serving to comfort a dying soul.

They sit together in silence. For a moment not as two soldiers on opposing sides of a war. Not as two species. Just two people, two tiny parts of a large galaxy. Lives lived for years up to this point just to end up here on a battlefield, one with life slowly epping from their veins.

The human takes their last breath, shutters slightly and closes their eyes. The Turian takes a moment to rest their body down gently, with rifle across their chest as a final gesture between soldiers, and rejoins their unit.

...

George Mayne, a 19-year-old Royal Fusilier describes a sense of "bewilderment" and feeling "woolly-headed" as he went over the top and charged across no man's land.

When he stormed into the opposing trench he found a dying German soldier, calling for his mother and for water.

"I am glad to this day that I gave him a drink from my precious water."

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37975358