China Trip – Day #3

ricefields
We got up earlier yesterday to make the trek out to Grandpa’s village.

brothershouse_outside
The first house we checked out was one which Grandpa made for his younger brother, who sadly 15 years ago was robbed and murdered in this house (and even sadder, people only found his body days later AND the killer has never been found).

brother_ohotoframe
Photo of his brother, his house now abandoned and acting as a shrine of sorts.

interior_brothers_home
Inside.

bedroom

grandpashouse
We then made our way to Grandpa’s house.

crackers
There were a fair few villagers there ready for our arrival so the traditional ceremonies kicked off right away with deafening crackers!

grandpapa
We all made a beeline to a wall of photos next to a shrine. This is Grandpa!

grandpapics

greatgrandparents
Mum cleaning the photo.

grandpa_ohoto

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supreme
Yeah, cousins know how to dress!

cuz_dress

drying_pigfood
I saw lots of this stuff drying out on slabs of concrete, it’s turnip for pig food!

ladies_mumcousin

julius_carry
Haha! My Uncle Julius rocks the ZEN Snapback so well!

bicycle2

bicycle1

smokingclub
Yeah Indo men, we drink and smoke! We then had a feast, eating all the food that was prepared for Grandpa earlier. The food we were eating was raised in the village too. So rad.

mum_cousin
Mum meeting one of her cousins for the very first time. This guy drinks 3 bottles of a red a day, and smokes like a chimney. Happy life!

cheers
Cheers! We stayed here a while and I waxed lyrical a bit too (red wine does that to me!). I live for this!

scooter
I then got a scooter ride down to visit the last living brother.

rundown
On the way we stopped by the house in which Grandpa grew up in until he was 13 (funny that the house number was 13 too), this house was in a pretty bad state now with nothing but chickens living in it.

village_rundownhouse

chickens

village_rundownhouse2

brother2
I was pretty welled up with emotions, as you can see in this photo. Was so hard to contain!

villagers_2girls
Family after family, house after house.

2girls
Super cute village girls!

mum_naughtykid
And another family, the little kid was super naughty, as soon as he saw me he threw stuff in my face!

tea
Tea, we had LOTS of it in each house. Each house owner would pour us tea, shove food in our faces and tell us stories, both happy ones and sad ones. I loved it.

shogun
With happy hearts we left the village and by the time we got back to the city it was dinner time.

salmonsushi
I really wasn’t hungry at all, but when in doubt, power out!

fishsalt

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2 Responses to China Trip – Day #3

  1. Richard Ma says:

    Unreal man, that’s like stepping back in time. I can only imagine the strange emotions meeting distant relatives or looking back into the past, would definitely like to do that one day

    • Justin Fox says:

      100% Richard, was such a heart warming day, very hard to explain… you had to be there (is what I am screaming to my cousins back home who didn’t come with us!!!).

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