Earthquake Diary (8)

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Earthquake Diary (8)
The United Efforts

24 February 2009

This is the most amazing eyewitness account of a huge event. Through his camera lens, the author known as 新洋, recorded and reported, and is still recording and reporting to this very day, the horrific catastrophe and incredible human response. The following are the images edited from some of his photos and English translation of the related notes:

1, Eyewitness Report through the Lens
2, The Rescue Efforts
3, The Tentative Recovery
4. The Support
5, The Chinese Army
6, The Reflection
7, The Hope

新洋 7 - 12 June 2008

This is one of the numerous towns and villages that have been reduced to piles of rubble by the power of quake.

And the force of thunderstorm further blew the survivors' temporary tents away.

"Last night, our whole family were exposed to the downpour, and the big rain continued for about 40 minutes; we were wet and cold, but had no place to turn," a granny tells me.

Fortunately this time the local authority responded pretty promptly, and by 10am, new tents are delivered to those in need.

The victims have not lost their heart, but start all over again.

They have food delivered to them by the government on a daily basis.

And crop seeds distributed to each family.

On my way passing Jiangyou City, I see donations by Chinese businesses quietly placed at the front gate of every household.

When I return to Mianzhu City a month after the quake, I find food and grocery markets have been reopened, with the prices similar to that in the Provencial capital city Chengdu.

I see families working together to repair damaged home.

Workers return to their companies and factories to help rebuilding the business.

Masters at local building material factories work in shifts to keep the production line going 24 hours a day.

"I haven't been able to take a break for three days and three nights, and resembled windows for 1,000 households," says a proud factory worker.

　　(Original post in Chinese can be viewed at forum.xinhuanet.com/detail.jsp?id=54276745&pg=1)

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A China Map Created by Nature Thousands Years Ago

27/2/09

相传阴沉木为开辟以前之树，沉沙浪中，过天地翻覆劫数，重出世上，以故再入土中，万年不坏。其色深绿，纹如织锦。置一片于地，百步以外，蝇蚋不飞。

-- 袁枚《子不语》

About ten thousand years ago, there were great forests in sub-tropical and warm areas of China, like Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces, where trees were hundreds and even thousands of years old. Then one day a massive natural occurrence, such as earthquake, mountain torrent, bushfire caused by lightning strike, took place and buried an entire forest under the earth, and the trees eventually became ebony, an extremely dense wood in black colour.

What's shown in the pic is a black wood unearthed in Yunnan, which is in the shape of the China map.

(Source: 蔺以光, xinhuanet.com)

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