archived below are the photos i took of the village, known as 'lianhuadang,' where i grew up, attending primary and junior high school, basically from 1963 to 1972 ...
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| the plant i mostly gathered for the pig my household tried to raise |
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| the plant said to make a dick swollen, which all village boys avoided touching |
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| yam leaves, delicious to pigs |
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| rice fields, often filled with leeches, where i sometimes worked after school |
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| hot cotton fields, where i was always slow in picking the flowers |
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| moon above the country, now more in my memory than in the reality |
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| i felt a sense of kinship with cotton fields when i returned in october 2014 |
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my primary school, now torn down but still with a later-built brick fence
photo taken in 2007 with my poet younger son |
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the primary school i attended, with a later-built gate and fence
photo taken with my 12-year-old younger son in the summer of 2007 |
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| the chicken house we had in our house, the wall has been modernized |
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| the broom used to clean the room's mudfloor... |
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the house i lived in while attending junior high school
which used to have a thatched roof and mud walls |
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| my father's tomb in my uncle's vegetable garden, taken in october 2014 |
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tomb-visiting: fire crackers burned in honor of my father
photo taken in october 2014 |
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| my father's tomb, photo taken in october 2014 |
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