Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - garlic woman - removing the garlic "silk"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - scales - Its interesting to note that most Chinese still use the "old" or traditional form of weight - that is "Jin 1 kilogram = 2 jin = 2.205 pounds. jin = 10 liang (formerly 16 liang = 1 jin = 500 g"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - two women with hats
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - washing drying in the late afternoon sun
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - waste plastic and paper sorting "factory"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - man "sorting" waste plastic and paper for recycling
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - "2262652" -
a phone number painted on the wall of this building
on Yingfeng East Road - "removal service's"
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Huaihua - 535 Peoples Liberation Army Hospital -
Waiting - August 2nd 2005 - Our daughter
was born at 3:56pm -
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Huaihua - University - restaurant - two of the "workers" employed by the school to demolish the old "english" building - "pay-day" - rice and cold water
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Huaihua - main street - "grape woman"
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Huaihua - University - some of the workers leave Huaihua University, they have been employed to demolish the "old" english building and re-surface the football pitch
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road
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Huaihua main street - "sitting man" - Yingfeng East Road
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Huaihua - main street - An older "grape woman"
'hawks her wares on Yingfeng East Road.
Yingfeng Road is the main - east - west - road that
runs thru Huaihua
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Huaihua - main street - early morning "street washing" a young
"worker" splashes the footpath outside "The Peoples Supermarket"
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Huaihua - main street - two women - fruit vendors
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Huaihua - road repair
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Huaihua - road repair - "foreman" - as with most of China - the roads of Huaihua are concrete not bitumen. All the work is completed by hand no machinery is used.
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Huaihua - main street - watermelon man - waiting in the heat of a typically humid Huaihua night for customers
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Huaihua - main street night - a basket of fruit stands unattended on the street - as a "red" taxi speeds past in the background - at night Huaihua comes alive - after a long humid day - many people come onto the streets for a walk or to do the things that they might do during the day in a more temperate climate
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