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DISCOVER CHINA

Posted at: 2008-11-16; By Agang; Clicks:669

DISCOVER CHINA 

Everyone of us

is always striving for our own dreams

we turn out to get a drop of happiness in return

As our life is getting busier and busier

Even without considering the importance of the existence of life

Though we become wise

We are no longer innocent

Then where can I find my happiness

Think it over and over

I finally take everything out of my mind

Rush out of the durance of thought 

Goes all over China，many people have had this desire，however，with the lapse of time，we become more and more impetuous and busier，it slowly has faded from the memory. We work hard every day only for living and hide it in the deep heart waiting for one day when I become rich and free. When I am finally clear，perhaps this day never will arrive！As time passes quietly，we become older and older，and then we understand shortness of life. Unceasingly repetitive mode of life makes people gradually feel exhausted and numb into the deep confusion. Is this really the life that I want? Each night lying down on the sofa，I am reluctant to turn on the television，appreciating the unreal splendor. Actually in my heart，I am clear that this is not what I want！

I need one kind of wisdom which can extricate me！

Certainly，I must break through the imprisonment on thought，liberating myself from the besieged cage.

Although having never stopped studying and thanking，I must join the rotation gears of realities. Combining ability with interest，the idea of going out is much more intense. Ancient person said：“walks ten of thousands kilometers is inferior to read ten of thousands books”，it is better to become aware on the road than to be in chaos all day in the sofa.

Many questions are needed to be solved one by one：sell the car，sell something in cheap to get money，added with my savings，I resigned，planned the line，buy the camera and so on simultaneously.

Starting off the journey finally！ On the road，if I encounter with others，we made a group. I have taken varieties of transportation vehicle. My guiding principle is：Do not go to those famous scenic spots as far as possible，trying to go down to some rarely known places，excavating  simple and the real life trivia，primitive and mysterious natural beautiful scenery.

Difficulties on roads can be imagined; all wonderful sceneries will become unusual in one to two months. Every day I must overcome the same tiredness and loneliness，but also has to confront with fear and the danger occasionally！ Sometimes I could not found the lodging at night，without any choices，I had to insist. In order to alleviate burdens，the photographic appendix entirely must be sent back home，the cover and the irrelevant pages of the books bought on the road must be torn up first，throwing away after reading.

It takes me four hundred days to go all over twenty-seven provinces and four municipalities in China mainland. After the summary，I continued for 3 months in order to make up the missing photos in some places. Altogether traveling schedule is 500 days with 10,000 photos.

Those ordinary and happy，marvelous and inconceivable pictures accumulated day-by-day have constructed a long volume with amorous feelings of our sublime motherland unintentionally; this travel-worn journey time，the gorgeous humanities character and style，the collected picture story，every time I look，I will have different feeling and shock！

She already completely changed my original intention，again gives me the brand-new power and faith，I should let more people see what I record to see another aspect excluding the mainstream society ordinary values！

The brief introduction of the book:

    The author Agang, started his journey in September of 2005. During his 500 days’tough  journey, he has gone  through 31 provinces of China and taken  more than 10 thousands photos(3240 chosen photos)and written over 170 thousands words as well.
Providing a lot of information about unknown geography, landscapes as well as humanities, this book can be a good travel guide for people to tour those places with original cultures and customers. At the same time, it can give lots of reference to the photographers, because the large photos in this book all reserve the original dates of photographing.
In addition, the most value part of this book lays in that the author hold the transcendent idea of “when taking photography, freedom can be got if one do not take photographing as a kind of art.” He took a lot of photos, which reflect the honesty, the kindness as well as the beauty of Chinese people. The rich photos with humorous or sharp words give readers a wonderful reading experience, that is, they can feel the uncover trueness and unfettered freedom of those places and those people.
The 500-day journey is a very tough one; the author and his team have overcome numerous difficulties and frustrations. Actually, it is a journey only people who have confidence and courage can make it. The author of this book,deviated from the mainstream values in order to break the traditional value bound in people’s mind.
The over 3000 photos were picked up from the total 10 thousands. And each of these photos has its own unique story and can reflect something, for instance, the blaze of humanity and wisdom of life. When reading it, one can not only enjoy the beautiful scenery of China but also can benefit from the sprits included in it.
The author’s Blog is very popular on the Internet with total clicks of more than 3 million. One of the netizens says like that,“touched by Agang’s work very much, I plan to share it with my wife and children.”…So many readers recall their old lives when reading Agang’s work. They are touched by those past feelings a lot.
There are three books in all with big 12k, the color printing as well as 612 Coated Paper, this book is bound very well. And with Chinese and English versions together, it can be well understood by Chinese and foreigners. So it can be a book for permanent collection and repeat reading. This book records a lot of information about the history and culture of China from 2006 to 2007. From the pre-photographing to the last publication, it spent 3 years to finish the book. With the large scope of its filming and the great amount of information it contains, this book is unprecedented. These elements will become more and more precious with the time passing by.

All Chinese around the city

Guangxi
 Guangxi 1 Go through the Sino-Vietnamese
 border

 Guangxi 2 Vsit the northwest of Guilin

 Guangxi 3 The area near Dongbafeng

 Guangxi 4 Travel notes of the places around
 Nanning

 Guangxi 5 Yangmei ancient town and Jinxiu Tuen

 Guangxi 6 Tongling grand canyon and Baikuyao

 Guangxi 7 Walking in Lijiang and Yangshuo

Guangdong

 Guangdong Shenzhen ,The night in Guangzhou

Hainan

  Hainan 1 Random notes of Hainan

 Hainan 2 A small fishing town in Plum mountain

Guizhou

 Guizhou 1 Censong town, the miao national
 village with the thermal spring

 Guizhou 2 Kaili city,Feiyun  cliff, Nanhua village

 Guizhou 3 Having spring festival in Ge families

 Guizhou 4 The Xijia people,the bullfight
    in Rongjiang  county

 Guizhou 5 Leishan,Rongjiang

 Guizhou 6 Xijiang Miao stockade with thousands
 of people

 Guizhou 7 Kongshen Miao stockade of Mini-skirt

 Guizhou 8 The great singing party of Dong
 People and Xiajiang  town

 Guizhou 9 The town of Gulou Buildings ——the
 town of drum-towers

Yunnan

 Yunnan 1 Yunnan Kunming ,Jianshui

 Yunnan 2 Hanis in Yuanyang, Estuarine

 Yunnan 3 Time stops at Manhao   town

 Yunnan 4 Zhemi town of Jinpingcounty

 Yunnan 5 Wedding in the village of Zhemi Dai

 Yunnan 6 Xishuangbanna, Menglong town

 Yunnan 7 Honghe (Red river),Fu Xian lake
 

 Yunnan 8 The impression in Yunnan, Diqing,
 Shu river

 Yunnan 9 Horse gang  mud-rock flows,Dongchuan Krasnopol

  Sichuan  

 Sichuan 1 Xichang, Wolong Giant Panda

 Sichuan 2 Back to my hometown——Weiyuan

 Sichuan 3 Zigong,an ancient town of Shangli

 Sichuan 4 The north route of Sichuan and Tibet (1)

 Sichuan 5 The north route of Sichuan and Tibet(2)

 Sichuan 6 South Sichuan-Tibet line1

 Sichuan 7 South Sichuan-Tibet line 2

 Sichuan 8 South route of Sichuan-Tibet line 3

Tibet 

 Tibet 1 Visit Changdu

 Tibet 2 From Mangkang to Bami

 Tibet 3 From Tongmai Natural Barrier to Linzhi

 Tibet 4 The Buddha’s city—— Lhasa

 Tibet 5 The most boring journey on
  Xinjiang -Tibet Line

 Tibet 6 The scenery of the south line of
 Xinjiang-Tibet 1

 Tibet 7 The scenery of the south line of
 Xinjiang-Tibet 2

 Tibet 8 The golden Sodom

Xingjiang 

 Xinjiang 1 The exotic scenery of Yecheng county

 Xinjiang 2 Taklimakan desert

 Xinjiang 3 Pamir plateau

 Xinjiang 4 The old city of Kashi

 Xinjiang 5 From Aqsu to Korla

 Xinjiang 6 Bayinbuluke,Kalajun

 Xinjiang 7 Yining Han street

 Xinjiang 8 Urumqi, Shanshan

Gansu 

 Gansu  1 Dunhuang, Lanzhou

 Gansu 2 The first town of Yellow River
 ——Qingcheng

 Qinghai

 Qinghai
 Ningxia 

 Ningxia

Shanxi 

 Shanxi 1 Yulin

 Shanxi 2 Yang family village in Mizhi

 Shanxi 3 Dang familes country in Han city

Chongqing  

 Chongqing 1 Chongqing

 Chongqing 2 Zhognshan ancient town

 Chongqing 3 A tour to the Three Gorges

Hunan  

 Hunan 1 Bamaoxi river，Jishou

 Hunan 2 Fenghuang old city in western Hunan

 Hunan 3 HongJiang old business city

 Hunan 4 Zhang Guying village in Yueyang
  Hubei

 Hubei Shui’nanwan village in Daqipu town

Henan 

 Henan 1 The Shanshan assembly hall in
 Sheqi county

 Henan 2 Jingziguan town , Stone village

 Henan 3 Guoliang village and Bigua road

ShanXi 

 Shanxi 1 Zhoucun town, Guoyu old city 

 Shanxi 2 Imperial city and Prime minister’s
 mansion

 Shanxi 3 Shangzhuang, Runcheng,  Zhangbi

 Shanxi 4 The old city of Yuci,Datong old street

 Shanxi 5 Weddings in the town of Pingyao

Inner Mongolia 

 Inner Mongolia 1 Huhehaote,Manchouli

 Inner Mongolia 2 Hailar,Jiagedaqi

 Inner Mongolia 3 Saihanba

 Inner Mongolia 4 Rock on grassland

 Heilongjiang

 Heilongjiang 1 Mohe,Tahe,Huma

 Heilongjiang 2 The summer of Harbin
 
 Heilongjiang 3 Heihe river,Suifen river,
 Changbai mountain

  Jilin

 Jilin Yanji, Changchun

Liaoning 

 Liaoning Shenyang, Dalian

  Tianjin

 Tianjin

Shandong

 Shandong Take photos simply in Shandong

Jiangsu 

 Jiangsu 1 Yangzhou city in Jiangsu province

 Jiangsu 2 Nanjing ， Jinxi town 
Shanghai

 Shanghai    

  Anhui

 Anhui Hefei ,Zhaji ,Huizhou

  Zhejiang

 Zhejiang 1 Nanxun water town

 Zhejiang 2 Xinye village,Zhuge Eight-Diagrams
 village

 Zhejiang 3 Shaoxing city

 Zhejiang 4 Qiantong,Heyang

 Zhejiang 5 Wenzhou，south gate street
  of Chong county

  Fujian

 Fujian 1 Xiamei village, Honglincuo

 Fujian 2 Fuzhou,Nine horses of Changle and Cai
 Zishen of Guanqiao

 Fujian 3 Tianluogou Hakka circular houses

 Fujian 4 The residences of Peitian and
 Changting city

  Jiangxi

 Jiangxi 1 Guanxi Round house

 Jiangxi 2 Jing Dezhen, Nanchang

Hebei

 Hebei 1 Traveling Yu county in summer
 and winter

 Hebei 2 Going through small  Wutai mountain

 Hebei 3 Chengde ,Beidaihe
  Beijing

 Beijing 1 The Beijing journey

 Beijing 2 Take some photos at Houhai

 Beijing 3 Houhe river,the cottage of Baihe river,
 Haituo mountain

 Beijing 3 The 798 art zone

Across China's road map

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