Daily Life in China                  

Country Kitchen:

Country temple in Yangxin. A basic but nice temple.  Basically a standard house with a facing and done-up entryway.  To the right is the kitchen.  Although it's a temple the kitchen is about standard except for the large size.  The stove is also very unusual in the shape and size. It has 4 large guo (wok) and two positions for heating water so a 6 burner stove.

This is the cook or owner.  After she got over her fright at seeing me she offered me something to eat.  She's jesturing as she's saying, "hellow, have you eaten rice?"

This is actually a very nice stove and impressive stove.  I showed the picture to a few people when I got back and no one had ever seen one this large or this shape.

This is a typical country cupboard.  Not much but enough for a big family i.e. relatives which there will always be in a country home.  Grandmother & farther, son, daughter, aunts, uncles and kids.

Note the suspended rod holding a pot. It's a double rod with a catch for head adjustment by raising or lowering the pot.  This is the first time I've seen a setup like this but told there are a number of them still around in this part of Hubei out in the villages.

This is a very old stove design and very unusual to be in this basically modern village house. The house is less than 10 years old.  It might have been that the old house was torn down and this old corner stove retained. ?? Not sure but it's and oldie.