The Long
Corridor is one of the most impressive places I've ever been.
It's a painted corridor that extends along a lake behind the
Summer Palace in Beijing, China. The corridor features hundreds
(maybe thousands) of paintings depicting scenes from famous
Chinese novels. Quite a few show the Monkey King
and his buddies. In
the one above, the Monkey King fights his way out of the Crucible
of Eight Trigrams, in which Lao-tzu tried to smelt him. Check
out that tiger-print loincloth!
To the
right is a photo of me (in the yellow shirt) in the Long Corridor.
The kid to the right of me looking up at the paintings is Kevin,
one of my students.
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