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Sketches of Rural Shandong, China

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中国山东农村,拍摄于2006年4月。
Rural farmer Shandong, China, taken in April 2006.
He is holding a cigarette gun in his hand, which he uses to smoke tobacco leaves bought at the market. He coughs while smoking.
Picture 1, The old man just came back from the market, and there was sugar in the plastic bag. He told me that the products are getting more expensive now.

Picture 2, I asked him if it was cold like this? He said that he would have cramps when he went to bed at night, and went to the city hospital. The doctor said that he lacked calcium to make him sunbathe.
Behind him are my classmates.

The grandmother is holding her son's grandson, and the girl next to her is her daughter's daughter. They all work in big cities, leaving their children to be raised by the elderly.
On-site sketches attracted onlookers
Few foreigners come here, they find it very strange.
Two old women were tired and resting on the side of the road.
They are pushing a wheelbarrow to the market. Two bags of sorghum are on the cart. Wheat is grown in the field behind.
The child came to see my classmate draw a sketch
Children playing with stones on the ground
Picture 1, a young grandmother with her granddaughter, she said that I am in good health, ready to work in a big city next year.

Picture 2, the young woman wears a coat in the work clothes of the electronics factory. On the side is her daughter. Someone in her family has passed away. She has just returned from the big city to attend the funeral.
The boy said he could also paint, and then drew a little girl on our sketchbook.
I asked him who it was, and he replied that it was his younger sister, who lived with her parents in the city because she was still young.He shed tears while painting....
He asked me, are you in a big city, too? Can I take this picture to my parents? I said I would find a way to give the painting to your parents. Then I asked him for the phone number of his parents. His parents were not in the city where I lived. After returning to Hangzhou, I sent the painting to them by express.
Picture 1, Beer is very expensive here, they drink ordinary liquor, and there are bulk sorghum liquor made by the winery nearby.

Picture 2, The little girl next to the old grandmother is her great-granddaughter. Her mother and grandma both work in big cities.
The old woman was grinding grain, I went to try it, this grinding disc is very heavy and I can’t move it
The road to the city
Postscript
Shandong Province's 2019 annual GDP is 1086.52 billion U.S. dollars, 
But the countryside is still very poor.
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Sketches of Rural Shandong, China
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