James Bowen's photos with the keyword: Coastal Provinces

Mazu is the Goddess who protects sailors (or so South East Chinese tradition has it) in much the same way that St. Nicholas does it in the Europe I think. This statue was in a cave shrine dedicated to her. I think this guy is a sailor, but I could be wrong (Mazu was a few feet to my left when I took the picture).

One of my big problems with where I Iive is that so many of the apartment building look drab. All the homes in Zhenhai look much like this. The only place where I've seen so many drab homes is in Warsaw. There must me something about communist housing!

One of my big problems with where I Iive is that so many of the apartment building look drab. All the homes in Zhenhai look much like this. The only place where I've seen so many drab homes is in Warsaw. There must me something about communist housing!