The weather in Hunan was cloudy and rainy this morning and yesterday.
Walked to Hunan Provincial Museum.

The museum is famous for its exhibition about MaWangdui, a Western Han tomb 2100 years ago. The body of Marquess of Dai is in the museum. This is one of the best preserved body from ancient times in the world, the skin was still moist when the body was found. She was buried in 4 layers of tombs with air tight seal and 80 liters of preserving fluid deep underground.
The outer tomb

Inner layer

Changsha is the capital of Hunan province and some of the high rank members of the communist party such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Hu Yaobang grew up around here. It’s a place famous for revolutionary events. There are many people who were involved in Chinese-Japanese war and Chinese civil war come from this province.

Xiang river divides Changsha into the east part and the west part. The city has a population of around 6 million.

LieShiGongYuan??????

Those who were martyred.

Hunan style noodle with beef (5 Yuan~USD$0.70). Ate 2 bowls of noodles.

Changsha city museum

Mao’s statue

Street peddlers beside the museum

Those street peddlers were selling all kinds of stuffs. On the left is a book called Human and Mother Nature and on the right is a book about the quotations of Mao. This is the Chinese way of doing business, anything goes as long as it makes money.

Former site of Hunan Communist party which was founded by MaoZeDong. Mao rent a house and lived here as well.

Took bus 1 across the Xiang river to the western part of Changsha.
Hunan University

Not far away is YueLu hill.

YueLuShuYuan. It’s one of the four famous ancient academies in China and was established during Northern Song dynasty. Academies were extablished in China during Tang dynasty 1300 years ago for scholars to study Chinese classics.

Took bus 1 back to the eastern part of Xiang river to WuYi square. I saw a guy was trying to steal something from a lady’s bag and I shouted at him and approached him. Another guy which is also the thief’s buddy came along and we had a fight. Those 2 guys are Uygur minority from Xinjiang province. I heard a lot of bad stories about Uygur people stealing things around in China but this is the first time I saw it with my own eyes.

Night view of Changsha city center

Went back to the hostel and some of the hostel employees also had some bad experiences with Uygur people.

Went to Changsha train station

and took a 9.50pm K9017 train to Changsha (147Yuan~USD$22, hard seat, 11 hours ride). The hard sleeping berth cost almost 300 Yuan which is quite pricey for a 11 hours ride so I just got a hard seat ticket from yesterday.

With LingChao at the train station, a local Changsha friend.