China Journal Post 12 - Beijing Photos

Here are just some more random photos I took.

These guys seriously need to work on their rock art work.  These are supposed to be animals, I think.

The picture below is just inside the Forbidden City.

 

Below is a view from the Forbidden City towards the hill we climbed.  That pavilion thing at the top is where the Buddha statue is (no pictures of the statue we allowed). 

Below is Elizabeth and I… with a door.  It’s a cool door, okay?  Notice the “threshold” by our feet.  It’s said in Chinese culture that if you go to Hell when you die, you come back as a ghost to haunt this world.  So, when you die, they tie your feet together.  Then they build doors with this threshold thinking that you can’t jump over them as a ghost with your feet tied together.  So when you see these step things, you know that only good things are able to get inside.  Girls are supposed to step over them right foot first.  Boys use the left.  We asked why and the answer was simply, “tradition.”

 Then "Fiddler on the Roof" got stuck in my head.