I took a 30 minute bus ride to the nearby county seat of Pixian to mail a package at the local post office, and, surprise of surprises!, ran into a bit of red tape. It was one of those "Sorry, even though your request makes perfect sense to any logical human being, it's not allowed by the letter of the law, so we can't help you" kind of things that you can find in any country, and seem to be concentrated around postal systems for some reason. It could have been maddening, but the two postal clerks still remained friendly, and very tolerant of my bumbling Chinese, so I wasn't too put off by it.
Everything resolved itself quite well in the end, and, more to the point, I got to stroll around scenic downtown Pixian with my camera for half an hour on a sunny early afternoon. I uploaded most of the pictures to Flickr, and you can see all of them here, if you'd like more of an idea of what the citizens of Pixian were up to from 1:15 to 1:45 today. Enjoy!
A charcoal vendor on his rounds - many restaurants cook over coal fired stoves.
Spring festival is coming up, and it looks like everyone trying to get tickets to visit home for the holidays. The line went from a local small ticket office all the way down the block.
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