#hubei

China has a twenty six storey pig farm in Ezhou Hubei where pigs are raised inside one tall building that can produce about one point two million animals each year.

Courtesy: Moguang Studio

Yangtze River on a foggy day (2007)

Fool's gold — but the real story is the geometry. Pyrite (FeS₂) crystallizes in the isometric system, which is why it tends toward cubes, pyritohedra, and octahedra in nature. This cluster from Daye, Hubei shows pyrite's sharp-edged habit sitting right next to a floater calcite — two very different crystal systems sharing the same matrix. Quick field test: pyrite shatters into angular shards, gold bends. One more way fool's gold gives itself away.

Golden snub-nose monkey eats an orange

Gan is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken by 23 million people in China, mainly Jianxi, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Fujian.

Rowers passing by the colossal statue of Guan Yu - hero of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms - built in 2016 and demolished in 2021, in Jingzhou, Hubei province. 2019.