A sketch I made of the Summer Palace from Wings of Fire. It was to give my places better visualisation of where they are in the location when doing their adventures.

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Hao Lei in Summer Palace (2006) per la regia di Lou Ye
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Spanning 15 years of the recent tumultuous Chinese history and the world over (from The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong Handover to Iraq), #SummerPalace tells a story of young love. It starts as Yu Hong from Tumen, a small town near Chinese-North Korean border, gets an acceptance letter from Beijing University. After settling into a cramped but lively dormitory life, she befriends Li Ti and falls madly in love with Zhou Wei. Their relationship is rocky and full of drama and involves lots of screwing. Even though not overtly political, their youthful energy explodes at the Tiananmen Square and quickly dissipates. #LouYe, along with his cinematographer Hua Qing, captures intimate moments of the bustling youth scene during the pivotal moments in China. For the characters, their lives have been altered forever and they will never be able to duplicate their friendship, their love. It's Lou's homage to his generation which endured all these changes. #tianenmensquare #chinesecinema

It appears that #StandingStoneSunday is an actual thing so here's a Taihu Stone in the Summer Palace in #Beijing from a visit there in 2008. The Taihu Stones and their distinctive shapes are formed by the action of pebbles constantly rubbing on larger rocks through rushing water action creating holes in the larger structure, and were considered lucky.

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