“24 Hours in Ji Chang Village” are images of Spring Festival in a small Southern China village. The village still appears today as it was during the Ming Dynasty. The generation of older women still wears the traditional dress from that time period and the architecture has not changed. One …
17 February, 2003- I snaked through the crowd, that had gathered on the central road of the village, to make it to the end. There were young boys performing the traditional Chinese Lion Dance where a large crowd gathered to watch. I was trying to get a glimpse of the …
This image was taken in Ji Chang Village in south China. I was in this village for only 24 hours, to celebrate their spring festival. I photographed this early in the morning, after I was awakened by the “banishing of the bad spirits” procession. As I was walking through the …