My brother in law Caohui working on a project in Chengdu-the capital city of Sichuan. So I also spent some days in Chengdu with my sister.
Sichuan is a leisure city. People like to play MaJiang, even on the street when they are doing business.
Caohui's friend invited us to a club after dinner. There were some live shows and bargirls.I was not allowed to take photos after this photo was taken.
The club was too noisy to us. Outside of the bar was some street barbecue booth. Their guests are mostly the people who are working in the clubs.
We also enjoyed the food.
One of the most important thing to go back to Mianyang is to visit my father's tomb-where located in a village. It was Caohui's first time to drive on such a uneven road, he was too careful to drove the car to the side road.
Many people from the village helped us.
After four hours, the car was pulled out.
This is the village. The hauses are all newly builted. After the earthquake in 2008, most of the farmer's hauses were damaged.The government offered every family each person 10,000 RMB (about 9500 EURO)to build up new hauses.
Sichuan is a leisure city. People like to play MaJiang, even on the street when they are doing business.
Caohui's friend invited us to a club after dinner. There were some live shows and bargirls.I was not allowed to take photos after this photo was taken.
We also enjoyed the food.
One of the most important thing to go back to Mianyang is to visit my father's tomb-where located in a village. It was Caohui's first time to drive on such a uneven road, he was too careful to drove the car to the side road.
Many people from the village helped us.
After four hours, the car was pulled out.
This is the village. The hauses are all newly builted. After the earthquake in 2008, most of the farmer's hauses were damaged.The government offered every family each person 10,000 RMB (about 9500 EURO)to build up new hauses. 
Very interesting pictures and story of your father's village, including how it was rebuilt. I wonder how much of the house cost was paid by the 10,000 Renminbi?
ReplyDeleteI like that you spelled house the german way!
ReplyDeleteHi Clive, I think to build such a house in this village will cost at least 20,000 euro. After earthquake in 2008, due to the big demanding of construction materials, the prices increased a lot. The government paid each family each person 10,000 RMB. To the farmers, it was a big money. So even some houses were not heavy damaged, people still rebuilt new houses.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I often mix the German and English at this moment. But I should have checked the words. Thanks for the reminding.
Lingling
Thanks Lingling, and that's good to know about the housing assistance after the earthquake. I can understand just how the farmers would think to use it, and the amount makes this possible. Good.
ReplyDeleteWe had some similar situation in the rural (and mainly forested) areas near where I grew up. There the problem besides earthquakes (which we also had) was flooding. Rivers that were a 20-foot wide trickle in summer could suddenly be miles across (really) in heavy rains of winter. I know one place where there is a marker on the raised roadway, showing the river height ten feet (3 m) above it. So there was a similar government program, which let people rebuild just as your Mianyang farmers. These people farmed too -- a famous 'Pepperwood' corn.
Sometimes our worlds are close.
Best,
Clive