Yellow River - School
A FAMILY BY YELLOW RIVER(OUTLINE)Written by CCTVRe-written in English by Kenong GuanThis filmed record of a small village community, namely Lijiashan (Li's Mountains) of Qikou, Shanxi Province, might serve as an illustration for a profoundly changing rural China. A town in the valley of the Yellow River, Qikou lies culturally in the heartland of the vast yellowish land. It used to be the hinge of transportation and still boasts a legacy of architecture created hundred years ago in the Ming or Qing dynasties. You naturally sense a perplexity of time, particularly on market days when you walk up and down the town in the fusion of the ancient style of the weatherbeaten buildings with a modern variety of commodities hawked by peddlers.While this is the general surroundings, Lijiashan itself is a rather remote village to reach. The path up to the mountains feels cliffy as all the slopes are more than 30 degrees steep. In the snow or in the rain, even jeeps cannot manage it. Down bel