CP15: Mongolia and TCM
Jaime and Anderson discuss border crossings and traditional Chinese medicine
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Your Mom Stops Traffic in Xian
From ChinaSmack:
Yesterday afternoon around 3 o’clock, while this journalist drove towards the North Street and Xihuamen intersection, suddenly appeared ahead a middle-aged woman around 40-years-old walking amongst traffic, “collecting toll” from all of the cars passing through this street, skillfully knocking on the driver’s side windows of every car, then demanding fees from the driver, and the drivers all helplessly and more or less paying the toll.
Perhaps it was because yesterday’s temperature was too high (note: at the time, this journalist’s in-car thermometer showed 45 degrees Celsius), this female toll collector had a towel on her head and her upper body indeed was only wearing a white bra.
The First Sandstorm
If you checked the news yesterday, you might have noticed that Beijing was hit by a severe sandstorm that covered the whole city. From BBC:
Beijing has been shrouded in orange dust as a strong sandstorm blew hundreds of miles from drought-struck northern China to the nation’s capital.The authorities have issued a level-five pollution warning and urged people to stay indoors. In Tiananmen Square, clouds of dust obscured monuments and visitors wore masks to avoid the dust and soil.
The storm has already caused havoc in Xinjiang, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei regions and is heading to South Korea.
It would have been awesome to go out and take some photos and really experience the sandstorm first hand. I probably would’ve written a very descriptive (but hilarious) post about what it really feels like to be in the middle of a sandstorm. Unfortunately, I totally slept through it. But I’m pretty sure this video captures the total experience.
