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Day 10, Sunday, April 25 (Xizhou) Our group enjoying breakfast in Dali Today was very cold and overcast. We practiced Qigong and Chen Style Tai Chi. We practiced longer than usual as a camera crew from the Chinese television came again to film us. This time Jeanee and Brian Linden planned to get a copy of [...] Day 6, Wednesday, April 21 (Xizhou) We began the day before breakfast by practicing the Eight Pieces of Brocade in the courtyard at 8 AM. A bunch of government officials including, so we were told, the Governor of Yunnan Province, came to watch the Westerners who practiced Qigong and Tai Chi with an American Master and [...] Today we started the formal classroom part of our program. We are teaching our group Qigong and Tai Chi every day and they are experiencing various traditional Chinese medicine treatments. But this trip is special in that we are also teaching them the theory behind the practices. We started with a lecture on the five [...] After lunch we visited a tie dye factory in Zhou Zheng, another small village in the Dali area. This is real tie dye. The patterns are very intricate. It takes days of labor to tie one garment. The factory makes their dye out of indigo leaves, which also happens to have medicinal properties. We harvested [...] This morning we visited the Xi Zhou market and walked through the village. Xi Zhou is located right outside of Dali, Yunnan Province, China. We browsed antique shops and tried traditional Xi Zhou pancakes – they are sort of like pizza without the cheese and very good. We got to see a little bit old [...] We journeyed through the Yunnan countryside as we headed for Dali and Xi Zhou. Scenic hills and valleys alternated like Yin and Yang to weave a brocade-like landscape.. Yunnan is suffering from a severe drought, the worst in 80-100 years. Normally the climate is more like a temperate rain forest; but even with drought, it [...] |
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