Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/21

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Subject: [Leica] Xi'an
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:48:47 +0530
References: <CAH1UNJ1YJY1Pign26pOU7aS7Ys1DydeJkn-mt2-2K_9-CBwkqQ@mail.gmail.com> <546F07A5.8060507@summaventures.com>

Peter,
Thanks for looking. The mosque is in very good condition, and in heavy use,
but it is a Chinese style building, not a domed mosque that is common
everywhere else. I generally do not photograph these historic, over
photographed buildings, mainly because I seldom find anything new about
them to visually show, and generally  just use them as backdrops. Here is
video from the internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eNZ-8kFK64

Cheers
Jayanand


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
wrote:

> Amazing Jayanand. My personal favourite is the General, but I like the
> people
> around Xi'an as well. Do you have any shots of the Mosque itself? I would
> be
> interested to see what sort of state it is in.
>
> Peter
>
> On 13/11/2014 13:35, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> > The next stop was Xi'an, the home of the Terracotta Army. The Army was
> > buried to protect the founder of the first dynasty in China. Emperor Qin
> > (of the Qin Dynasty), near his burial mound, from enemies he might
> > encounter in his afterlife around 210 BC. The figures are 10-15% larger
> > than life size, as befits a ghost's army, and the detail on their bodies
> is
> > quite amazing. In due course, everybody forgot about it, until a farmer,
> > digging a well under his lands in 1974, stumbled upon it. The walls had
> > fallen on the army, grave robbers had stolen the weaponry, and flooding
> had
> > ruined the figures as well, leading to a painstaking and gargantuan
> > reconstruction task. There is enough still hidden here to keep
> > archeologists busy for a century more, I think - there are supposed to be
> > 60 pits around, full of the emperors help for the hereafter, and only 4-5
> > have been dug up, fully or partially. The Emperor's necropolis has not
> been
> > opened as yet for fear of what oxidation would do to the things inside.
> The
> > Terracotta Army is very well documented, so here are a few shots from the
> > three pits open to the public, giving an idea of what is there:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1854.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1954.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1884.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1966.jpg.html
> >
> > The museum and grounds are wonderfully laid out and maintained for both
> > maximum safety for the contents, as well as ease of viewing for the
> hordes
> > who pass by every year:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1992.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2023.jpg.html
> >
> > Xi'an, surprisingly has a big Muslim population, and is home to The Great
> > Mosque and its lovely green grounds. Luckily, on the day we went, there
> was
> > a funeral service going on someone important in the community, so there
> > were quite a few people around.:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2580.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2062.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2596.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2050.jpg.html
> >
> > Surrounding the mosque was an enchanting covered market, selling, as most
> > such markets do, utterly flimsy, cheap and useless stuff:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2617.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2622.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2635.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2565.jpg.html
> >
> > Everybody was zipping around the bazaar in electric vehicles, either
> bikes
> > or tuk-tuks:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2657.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2077.jpg.html
> >
> > Finally, people shots to end the first day in Xian:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2063.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2067.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2028.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2098.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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> Dr Peter Dzwig
>
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Replies: Reply from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Xi'an)
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