We’re back!!! from a 4-day geological trip to Ji Xian, Tianjin Province. What an exhausting trip, climbed up and hiked mountain and hills but nevertheless there’s something interesting and beautiful about Chinese people and culture we learned from the trip. So much things to tell but seems words are not enough to describe all. The most important thing is that because of this trip, we had been able to twine relationship with our chinese colleagues here. After 4 months having a hard time just to communicate with them eventually the ice now is melting down. We don’t know after all this time, they were so eager to talk to us, but due to their poor english made them so timid and refrained.
One night, we approached a guy who supposed to act as our escort (??) during the trip to ask something about problems we had with our simcard, one simple question lead to another then it turned to be a pleasant conversation between people with contrast background. We chatted about many things, from simcard to communist party, from monogamy-poligamy to how expensive to buy a house in China, from our wife/bf-gf’s profession to Korean War, Japan War, Hongkong and Macau. I can say that this guy is very open minded person, I dare not say youth generation of Chinese nowadays all like him, i just can guess this man is different, unique, not only how open he was but also he can joke with us the way we do. A real cute and funny chinese young man.
At the other night, he revealed to me that he is not a Han Chinese but a Manchurian (you know that majority of Chinese, 90% is Han race and the rest are Miao, Manchu, Mongol and etc). No wonder I always thought his face is unlike typical chinese men, more like Korean or Japanese. His hometown is in Liaoning Province, Northeastern part of China, He said that in ancient times, 3 province in North Eastern China which covers Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang were belong to Manchus. The last dynasty who reigned China before China reformed to a national was Qing Dynasty, and this dynasty came from Manchu tribe. In old times, the Manchus earned living by hunting animal and used animal skin as their clothes, which is unlike Han race who mostly lived as farmers. We shared so much thoughts, opinions, differences but at the end i realized that no matters what nationality, religion, culture, customs, tradition every people has, we are all just the same human being everywhere.
Dedicated to our dude, Gao Boyu…
