Hainan Island, China

Here is another card from China received through China X Other Countries Round Robin. My sender, Yibua, says: "Many greetings from Hainan Island, China. My hometown is the most Southern place in China, surrounded by sea. Summer is all year around!" Unfortunately, I don't know what the significance of this house is. It looks like an appartment building, almost. :) On the card, the discription reads, The Diaojiao House at the Sunxi River Bank.
I liked the stamps:


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Hongkou Stadium, Shanghai, China

A nice large card arrived from China as a part of "Your hometown" Round Robin, from Feiyi. She writes, "This is a card of Hongkou football stadium, and I just live in the building behind the stadium. Near it is a park called Luxun Park. The famous Chinese writer Lu-xun's grave lies in it. This area used to be controlled by Japanese, so a lot of Japanese style buildings can be found." Very wonderful to receive such a card and have a little story behind it! I am reading "The Shanghai Girls" by Lisa See right now, so it is amazing to see what modern Shanghai looks like! The book is amazing, too!

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Native Animals RR #2

Second half of the Native Animals Round Robin has arrived! It is 2 postcards, both are so pretty! The Chinese postcard arrived from Feiyi and is called "My happy life". "During a typical day a giant panda spends 60%of the time awake during which most of their time is spent eating bamboo," reads the discription.

Another card arrived from Russia, from strix-ru of St. Petersburg. This is a one handsome looking squirrel! LOL It looks very much like I used to imagining squirrels when growing up (we didn't have that many of them in my city). The ones here in the US are very different. They are not quite that pretty orange-brown color but rather grey. Alexandra also included the fitting stamps:

Postcard Scavenger Hunt #4 - Handicrafts

Unfortunately, I don't have many cards with handicrafts. The ones I saw online are all so beautiful, I hope I will get some eventually. :) I received this one today. It is the Chinese Bronze pieces from 3000 years ago! I hope they qualify for the handicrafts, although the card doesn't show people making them. It is also my first postcard from China. it came from Silencelee from Beijing. The stamps are also very special.



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I think these pieces are just called the artifacts or tripods (?). :) The postcard was written in Chinese, so I don't know more. Here is a bit from wikipedia on Chinese Bronze: "The Chinese bronze artifacts generally are either utilitarian, like spear points or adze heads, or ritualistic, like the numerous large sacrificial tripods. However, even some of the most utilitarian objects bear the markings of more sacred items. The Chinese inscribed all kinds of bronze items with three main motif types: demons, symbolic animals, and abstract symbols.[8] Some large bronzes also bear inscriptions that have helped historians and archaeologists piece together the history of China, especially during the Zhou period.
The bronzes of the Western Zhou period document large portions of history not found in the extant texts, and often were composed by persons of varying rank and possibly even social class."