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Post by twoupman on Apr 9, 2016 19:25:01 GMT -5
BBC presentation on China's longest river, the Yangtze River by Simon Reeve: twoupman houseofchinn.com |
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Post by douglaslam on Apr 10, 2016 9:44:52 GMT -5
Nice work twoupman. I think I've seen this documentary before, together with a few of other Simon Reeve presentations like Tropic of Capricorn and Australia.
In 2010, on the second of my two trips to China that year. my daughter and I found ourselves in Nanjing after visiting Shanghai for the World Expo. and Huangshan, the Yellow Mountain. I was desperate to see The Yangtze, the two of us worked our way to the famous Bridge across the Yangtze. Little did we know, the approach to the Bridge and the walk was kilometres in lenghth. It was falling dark, and we walked past the point of no return. We must get back to our hostel for the laundromat would close. We left a bag of dirty clothes for cleaning. There was no time the next day because we have booked our train tickets for Shanghai for our return flight to Canton.
Fortunately, there was a breakdown bay on the Bridge. We jumped the low barrier and stopped a taxi to take us back to our hostel, and in time to collect our clothes from the laundromat.
Yes, I did see The Yangtze, in the dark.
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Post by twoupman on Apr 11, 2016 21:49:04 GMT -5
Ever wondered why the river is called Yangtze River in English whereas in Chinese it is Chang Jiang (長江) to mean Long River? When foreigners arrived in Eastern China (Shanghai and Nanjing region) they were told the river was Yangzi Jiang (揚子江). Unfortunately, the Europeans thought it meant the entire river as the Yangtze River without realizing the Chinese were referring to the portion of the river from near Nanjing east to the river mouth in the Yellow Sea. This misunderstanding has remained to this day, it is the Yangzte River (揚子江) in English and in Chinese it is always Chang Jiang (長江). The lower reaches of the river is still referred to as Yangzi Jiang (揚子江) in Chinese. twoupman houseofchinn.com |
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