Peony Chinese Flower and Bird Painting (1/3 Slanted Postures)
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Cultural harmony
In the beautiful 2000-year-old city of Xian, one of the four capitals of ancient China and capital of Shaanxi province today, history meets you at every turn and walks with you on pathways which once formed the eastern most outpost of the Silk Route. You literally touch its sooty fingers at the imposing Great Wall on the edge of the city, hear its haunting music as the bells toll at the Bell Tower and are transfixed by its timeless beginnings as you gaze upon the magnificent terracotta warriors keeping vigil at Emperor Din Qin Shi Huang's burial site. If you are adventurous enough to walk off the touristy beaten track, you might, if you get lucky, saunter into a 1000-year-old park ablaze with roses and peonies watched over by impossibly graceful weeping willows. Or wander into a mosque like none other….
We did just that when enticed by the fragrance of freshly baking naan and biryani on the boil, we drifted off a main road and into a twisting,
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