An'Yang

A couple weeks ago I went on a trip to An'Yang with the school. We visited the site of an ancient civilization where human and animal sacrifices were buried. It is also where many tortoise shells were discovered. These shells were used to predict the future for this ancient civilization. They would write things on the shells, heat them, and depending on how and where cracks would form on the shell, it would depict the future. For example, weather, marriage, and hunting were predicted by the tortoise shells.
We also went to a city called Linzhou. It is the site of the Red Flag Canal. This canal was built in ten years, beginning in 1954. It is a canal that was made entirely by man power without any modern equipment. The city of Linzhou suffered for many years without any access to water and finally decided to build a canal. If stretched out the canal would run almost the entire length of China, from Harbin in the North to Guangzhou in the South. They farmers in the city put everything on hold to build the canal, they worked night and day, and many people died while building. It is a fascinating story and a beautiful place to see. Unfortunately, I was sick the whole time so I couldn't enjoy the weekend as much as I would have liked.

A group of Chinese tourists who insisted on having our group taking pictures with them.
Claudia and me by the canal.

On one side of the bridge you are in Henan Province, on the other side you are in Hubei Province. Some of our group trying to stretch from one province to another. The only problem is you were only allowed to have 10 people on the bridge at a time.