Quanzhou ĦE Ninyin
6th Visit to China (4)
26.07.2016

I slept after 12 o'clock last night. I then woke up at 1.30 a.m. because of the noisy KTV. That man sang until 2.30 a.m. It was lousy, terrible! Anyway I had a better sleep than that when I was in Teochew. I woke up a few times. I finally got up when it was almost 8 o'clock.

We took our breakfast in the small canteen of the Hotel. The lady who served was from Hunan, I called her as big sister. There were soybean milk, steamed bun, milk, fried dough, porridge and stewed radish. There was no cloth-washing service in the Hotel. Hunan big sister said that she could wash for me. I requested her to wash three pieces of my clothing and gave her 20 Yuan.

Getting out of the Food Street, we walked to the Wen Temple following the same route as last night. Passing by the GuanYue Temple, we came to the mosque. We spent quite a while in the mosque seeing the history.

Then we went to Wen Temple and took some pictures. The Nanyin association was closed and there was no performance in the day.

After that, we walked to the Clock Tower and visited a few places there. As we were tired, we took a bowl of dessert and rest a while in the shop.

Kaiyuan Temple was the place of interest in my plan.

Kaiyuan Temple was built in AD 686. Its name was Lotus Temple. In year 738, the name was changed to Kaiyuan Temple. Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou was much bigger than Kaiyuan Temple in Teochew. We spent quite some times there.

After leaving Kaiyuan Temple, we went for our lunch. We passed by the place where we were just now. And we found the Pagoda of Heart of the Town.

We took our lunch at the Lam Dumpling restaurant new the Clock Tower. I took a bowl of pork soup and Teacher Hui took a bowl of beef soup, in addition to the dumplings. Those were the local famous food we searched for from the Internet.

After the lunch, we took a bus to the Quanzhou Station and found out the change of High Speed Rail tickets. We had the tickets leaving from Xiamen to Teochew in the early morning of 29 July. We changed the tickets of departure time to 28 July evening.

We took a bus back to the Hotel. At the junction of the Food Street, I saw a fast food restaurant named "Singapore" selling TeXiang chicken. We took a cup of drink at a small shop near the Hotel. Teacher Hui went for the foot massage and I went back to the Hotel.
When the Hunan big sister bought back my washed clothes, I thought Teacher Hui came back and was very happy. But not. Times seemed to be very slow and long when waiting for people. Teacher Hui came back after 6 o'clock.

Tonight we would go to Wen Temple to listen to Nanyin. It was the main reason that I returned to Teochew after 11 years.
But the painful incident happened.
Teacher Hui said his friend would come and fetch us to Wen Temple. I did not like to meet people I was not familiar with.
Even Teacher Hui had not met him and they knew each other from the Internet WeChat.

My right thigh was cut because I put on my new pair of trousers. It was painful when walking. Although we went to the Convenient Shop to get the plaster and paste on, but it was difficult to walk.

I was moody. But Teacher Hui was keen to meeting friend. I asked him to go ahead to meet his friend and I would stay in the Hotel.
I did not like to argue. I was not keen to make new friend.
I recalled when I visited Teochew 11 years ago, we stopped over one night in Xiamen after touring Beijing and before going back to Teochew. He also met his friend. It was all right that the friend brought us to the University of Xiamen and Nan Putou Temple.
But after dinner, Teacher Hui said that he forgot to give a shirt for the friend. So we visited the friend and spent the whole evening there. When we were back to the Hotel, the tour counter was closed. I missed the opportunity to make enquiry of visiting GuLangYu (Island).

The main purpose for this trip was because of the Quanzhou Nanyin.
I asked him go ahead to meet his friend in order to make his dream come true.
I said I would stay in the Hotel. That was not true. I would wait for them to leave and then take a taxi to Wen Temple to listening to the Nanyin. After that, I would return to the Hotel earlier. There was no performance last night as they went to perform in the village. If I missed the performance tonight, it would be meaningless for my trip.

It was painful.
Finally Teacher Hui cancelled his appointment. We then took a taxi to Wen Temple after 8 o'clock. We spent more than an hour there, but I did not have the mood anymore.

Walking back to the Hotel, Teacher took a bowl of vermicelli.


 

The Food Street

 

Quanzhou

GuanYue Temple

Quanzhou

Mosque



 

Quanzhou Wen temple

 

Clock Tower

Old Street Lane

Youth Hostel

Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple

















Old Street Lane

Pagoda of the Heart of Town

Pork soup and beef soup

Black rich dumpling

Fast Food Restaurant

Milk Tea

Dinner 

Vermicelli paste







Wu Shu Zhen

Vermicelli


06.03.2017