Du Fu's Cottage

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DuFu / twoFu – and that distinction is important.  (DuFu is a very famous and oft quoted poet.)   And the Fu is like food without the “d”.   Tip of the day - Du is pronounced two / or 2.  With that information, I got there-  Anyway, yesterday I went into town to go by a university to inquire about being a teacher, shopping for coffee, and see a historic site.  Quite an adventure if you are not  doing hang gliding off the coast of Peru or something – this counts as one for me anyway.-- I rode five different buses and one  for hire motorcycle.  Two of those buses were those incredibly crowed ones you see photos of.  Yes they are crowded and goodness but being a very small person must be difficult on one of those -- (I am large by the way for your frame of reference).  Also did a heck of a lot of walking as I initially went to the wrong campus of the university)

I have digressed.  Now I can say "ZaiNar" with the best of them (that means where) but if you miss the what you are looking for, you just did not get anything but blank stares.  I was saying DuFu, like the Do in Dofus the cat of family yore.  I may as well been asking for the Empire State Building or the cows barn for all I know.  It is not pronounced Do it is pronounced "2".  And you can get there.

 Any rate above was me in front of China’s most influential poet’s home place (replica of course as he was about 700AD.—think Shakespeare as an equivalent) .

It was very nicely done and did not have the repairs from the destruction of antiquities that happened during the Cultural Revolution as most of the discoveries at this site occurred since 2001.  

  

Lots of paths, buildings housing various artifacts related to the famed post – I read a few of his poems and rather liked them.

Leaving 2fu’s place, I went to buy coffee.  It is here, just in limited quantities and not generally available - (as Laura says everything is possible, few things are easy) – anyway on the way I encountered another of those monstrous intersections Chinese traffic engineers are so fond of.  This is the tail end of the left turning cars. – note the number of left turn lanes.

And here is a view of the that intersection's through traffic should you chose to take the underpass route – and I would recommend it--(the intersection is in the background as I am on a pedestrian overpass) --there is also a fondness for long red stop lights here too-which makes me feel quite at home as Raleigh has a fondness for long red lights.  We do not have the really good idea on through traffic.

 And on the way back I stopped by one of the numerous named “Peoples Parks” as I heard lots of loud singing and saw throngs of people and realized that it was my kind of place. 

From what I could tell, this was a singing contest of some sort as one group would sing a song with loud speaker music accompaniment – be ushered off stage right as a new group appeared from stage left.  Right behind the partition in the background was another contest, so you had competing loudspeaker music and competing singers into microphones.  A hoot it was.   and crowed too