A basket of sweetness

the sun was warm, the air was quiet, and the trees were heavy with gifts.

we spent the afternoon in a fig orchard in xinyu, where green and purple-red fruits hung like jewels just asking to be chosen. there’s a special kind of magic in reaching up, twisting a ripe fig from its branch, and biting into it right there—warm, sweet, and tasting purely of summer.

we left with sticky fingers, full baskets, and the feeling that we’d found a little piece of paradise hidden in fairy lake district.

Shangrao 上饶 in Jiangxi province, East China is a prefecture-level city. Home to some of the best preserved villages in China. One of them is the Wuyuan county 婺源县 which has a landscape dotted with strange caves, deep secluded rocks and numerous historic sites. Its remoteness and inconvenient transportation protecting its villages from too many visitors.

Another spot is the Wangxian Valley, a national AAAA-level tourist attraction integrating Gan folk customs, local culture, cuisine, and agriculture.

Mount Lu or Lushan 庐山 in Jiangxi province.

The mountain and the surrounding region is one of the "spiritual centers" of China, containing many Buddhist and Daoist temples in addition to landmarks of Confucianism. Lushan National Park has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

The Porcelain Palaces 瓷宫 in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. Built by a 86-year-old grandmother, Yu Ermei, who spent 5 years and 20 million yuan (~2.7 million USD) to complete them at the age of 91 using her own 60,000 porcelain collection.

Jingdezhen is known as the "Porcelain Capital" because it has been producing Chinese ceramics (such as white and blue pottery) for at least 1,000 years, and for much of that period Jingdezhen porcelain was considered to have the finest quality in China.

The Porcelain Palace is built similarly to “Fujian Tulou” or “Hakka earthen dwelling” which I’ve also posted about before (https://www.tumblr.com/sinoheritage/773629912679677952/fujian-tulou-%E7%A6%8F%E5%BB%BA%E5%9C%9F%E6%A5%BC-fujian-earthen-buildings-are)