You never know what you’re gonna get behind a set of doors. Interior life is often hidden behind great big doors. In China, you really can’t judge a book by its cover. A ritzy entrance can hide a shabby interior, while a humble door can open up to a beautiful courtyard. Sometimes the outside and inside match, but you can never be sure.
Here, some doors from the small village in the Hebei countryside, about 40 kilometers from Shijiazhuang. My feeling is the inside is probably pretty humble, but you never know!
Xing Cheng Pu Village 2006
Xing Cheng Pu Village 2006
Xing Cheng Pu Village 2006
*Eight is a lucky number in China. 888 is also arbitrary, like 543, but very lucky!
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What great pictures!
Just wanted to stop by and say hello and let you know that I added your blog to the sidebar over at Pilot Wives Club!
Not arbitrary actually! It has to do with Buddhism, which has a lot of traditions having to do with numerology. 8 is for the eight-fold path, and there are also 8 treasures in Buddhism. It is also one less than 9, which is the perfect number in Buddhism, but since most people can’t reach perfection, 8 sort of represents being close to perfection, but not quite there. On any buddhist rosary you will also find 108 beads. So 8 pops up a lot in Buddhist tradition. Some Chinese people will also tell you “ba” sounds like the word for luck but it goes deeper than that and a lot of Chinese folks these days aren’t up on their Buddhism.
Thanks for stopping by my blog by the way!
Thanks for sharing that, Jessica! I should have said that I arbitrarily chose it, knowing that 8 was lucky and important to the Chinese. I did not know, however, the root of the importance. I think it is quite unfortunate that things like this are being forgotten, but that is the way things go, I guess.
pictures are great, don’t study it, but luv all the ‘logic’ behind numerology
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