A day trip to Haining by the Qiantang Riverbend (to see the only 150 days out of 12 months phenomenal tidal waves) on Saturday, Feb.16th 2008

Yejun driving to Qiantang Riverbend.


(Above) Sitting by a picture display of Wang Guowei (? - 1927), a literary and political figure during the Qing Dynasty and Nationalist China periods; (below) with his resting, puffing and reading corner on second floor of Wang's former residence. Wang is famed for his Prose Essays in General, or Renjian Cihua 人间词话.

On the boulevard lined with shops on either sides and the entrance gateway with city wall since the Three Kingdom Period.

One of the sundry shops on the boulevard.

With light pillar in the backdrop, the cotton candy is always a hit for this easy going and carefree and any other community.

Signs of extreme wealth and royal power once before, now a mere tourist spot for remembering history.

Hot lunch freshly delivered for a caretaker at a tourist spot.

Haining is famed for leather products.

Intricate lattice roof structure capping the royally bestowed stone tablet that narrates the once royal charm.Lanterns collected on a large hall corner awaiting for maintenance (above) and a God of Sea(below) blessing the lives of community. With the ever impending natural forces of the tidal waves, Hai is literally the sea while Ning is calm or tranqulity that genuinely explains the derivative of city name Haining.

Testing my limit of the guardian stone door.

Hu Xingxing checking out the places all over; one of the shooting locations
of a CCTV television series, The Story of Deer Pot or Lu Ding Ji 鹿鼎记.

Yejun and Hu Xingxing cannot resist but salivating for mai-ya or wheat candy.