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The streets are definitely worth wandering - in any season. This is a wonderful town, with something marvellous at every turn, and marvellous people to tell you about it all.
Just take any turn,down any lane, and stop to talk with the people of Qingcheng.
Written Feb 17, 2006
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Forty nine structures are being actively protected in the town, and forty-six of these are residences. Most are still inhabited by townspeople and used for their daily lives and livelihoods. Currently, the residences are in varying states of repair, from the crumbling ruins to the remarkably well-preserved. Seeing the beautiful structures is merely a question of asking the owner. Invariably they are happy to see you, and your problem is not getting in, but getting away again!
Once these forty-six houses are firmly 'saved', further houses will be added to the registry, and it is to be hoped that buildings that retain any remnants of the past willeventually be added.
Fortunately the townspeople are being involved in the whole process and the town will be preserved in its entirety, not as an atrophied museum but as living heritage.
Written Feb 17, 2006
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For many centuries, waterwheels have lined the rivers in Gansu, especially on the Yellow River and the Weihe. Today only three original, working waterwheels remain -at Xigu in western Lanzhou, in Dingxi on the Wei River and here on the north bank of the Yellow River at Qingcheng.
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Written Feb 17, 2006
Address: North bank of Huanghe
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