Pingyau

Pingyau was an excelent place to stop for a couple of days.
There are loads of little streets to wander through,
tonnes of temples, tauist a budist.
They both seem like rather different religions or traditions then the ones we are more familiar with.
The name Tauism seems to be given to all kinds of traditional ancestor worship,
god of earth, city god, grain god etc etc. and many of them are ancient guys who actually lived and then became the "god" of war etc.

Tonnes of historic buildings to visit including the first chinese bank.
You can walk the town walls which is cool,

One of the days I cycled to a temple outside of town which was from before the ming dinisty (very very old)

I have decided that chinese is hard to learn,
if you don't understand someone they will often start drawing the chinese character in the air, this is because when chinese have different dialects they still use the same characters so writing can be a kind of universal language, not much good for me though.
I can recognise a handful of characters and it takes about 3000 to get the jist of a newspaper, hmmm.

I got the comments sent to me, thanks dad,
and of course the bad spelling is a deliberate ploy to entertain and evaid the censors.
I might even start throwing in a bit of Chinglish for entertainment,
for example there are signs next to many stairways saying "slip carefully"
or next to a low threshold "knock head" and the spelling can be worse then mine,
eg "no smoling" etc.

I got the night train to Xi an and arrived 11th of July