Guilin

Li river in the morning

We end here. The Li river, in Guilin, all the way south. The karst peaks in the background, that is the millennia-old image of China, the one from Song dynasty paintings. In the foreground, a man in a conical hat picks up something along the water. Nobody told him he was inside an iconic landscape. He is doing his work. And that is it, in the end, the real China : while everything changes, somebody, somewhere, carries on.