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Hardworking men pulling rickshaws on dusty streets.
\nRich Chinese being carried by 4 men on litters,
\nlike small rooms with two long poles on the shoulders
\nof the men.
\nMourners wearing all white in funeral processions.
\nBodies left above ground for 40 days in graveyards before burial for proper mourning and preparation for the afterlife.
\nCamels walking in a line on the streets with bulky loads on their backs.
\nStreet performers playing musical instruments.
\nJugglers and contortionists exhibiting their talents.
\nCrowds of people watching.
\nOpen air bazaars. Many people shopping.
\nBird sellers selling birds.
\nPuppet shows and a sword fighter showing off his skills, two swords in the air, hands and swords as if flying.
\nA barber washing and cutting hair.
\nStreet cobblers mending shoes.
\nPeople eating and washing clothes on sidewalks.
\nStreet peddlers selling many goods.
\nMen with two sprinkler water buckets on their shoulders, sprinkling the streets to keep the dust down.
\nLegions of men walking by carrying heavy loads now carried by trucks.
\nSome pulling the heavy loads with ropes.
\nAn ancient trolley car rolls by on rails.
\nChildren working with adults hewing wood and logs.
\nTwo men with two-man long saw sawing wooden planks.
\nBeautiful boats, cities and rivers.
\nHow I would have liked to have seen it all in person in 1917.<\/p>\n
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Hardworking men pulling rickshaws on dusty streets. Rich Chinese being carried by 4 men on litters, like small rooms with two long poles on the shoulders of the men. Mourners wearing all white in funeral processions. Bodies left above ground for 40 days in graveyards before burial for proper mourning and preparation for the afterlife.… Continue reading