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<\/a><\/p>\nMr. Yu stands in front of the Ming Dynasty walls. Thanks to Wuhan Library’s arrangement, we left skyscrapers and heavy traffic behind us, drove into a village–Da Yu Wan (\u5927\u4f59\u6e7e\uff09. The retired library head, Mr. Yu, in Huangpi, Hubei Province, entertained us proudly with his own rhymes about his and Mulan’s hometown. It’s a well-known historical place with a mountain, a river and a lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1959,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nMr. Yu showed us dozens of residents from Ming and Qing. They are all connected, and we could walk through different households for the entire block. From Mr’s Yu’s talks and poems, I could sense the influence of Mulan. He refused all the rewards and retired to his hometown just like Mulan did a thousand years ago. He volunteered on restoring his village to previous settings from his childhood memory. <\/p>\n
\nOn the way, we saw some constructions and old ponds cleanning. Some new paint covered the slogans of cultural revoluation period. I came at the right time, still got to see the marks left by time and the wars in the past 600 years.
\n<\/a> Our group caught attention of villagers. This 86 year-old invited us for tea, and told us that young people are quite cosmopolitan nowadays. Lots of them are working in cities and even in the US or Japan. I stopped and sat by this lonely old man, listened to his stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"