Made this collage card for a friend who has never been to China but has lots of curiosity for it. Cheongsam is a start I guess.
The color of Cheongsam was not drawn. I used vintage paper instead. Unfortunately the overall impression is not as good as I thought. So not sure whether to give it away yet.
Arrived in Xiamen yesterday morning and was driven straight to the factory from the airport. I loved Xiamen a lot based on my first impression. The factory I visited was very 80's style . It somewhat reminded me of some settings used in wang An Yi's novel.
The weather in Xiamen is much warmer than Shanghai area. The breeze along the water bank was very soothing. I wanted to visit Gulang Island, but the ferry was very busy and it was as if all the people were emigrating to the island.So I went to the local vegetable market instead.
It was quaint at the beginning but soon the scenes of animal blood such as fish and chicken and the smell of seafood and poultry and people made me feel so dizzy that I had to walk away.But before I left I went into a small shop and bought a traditional bowl. The bowl was small but the color was lovely. I wondered how far it had travelled before being put on the shop shelf.
Xiamen is very different from what I imagined. There is so much contrast among the places I was taken to yesterday and the places I went to today. It is now very hard for me to describe this place because the impressions I have got do not stack up. Some part is extremely modern or even luxurious, some part extremely old, and some part extremely poor and barren.
But overall I feel people here are here for living. I was told there are far less migrant workers here than cities like Dongguan and Guangzhou area. Like in the factory I visited most workers are locals and they all seem to work to stay, instead of working to leave.
I was fortunate to have a glimpse of the different residential areas in this city. I think I was glad to be here overall.maybe it is not the most modern city you can find in China, it certainly will be one of the cities that you are glad to have passed by.