Monthly Photos
Photos taken by ILCAA staff and associates are posted here once a month; most of them are taken during their field research in Asia and Africa.
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Afternoon in Chapchal
In Chapchal, in northwestern China, Sibe people often spend relaxed summer afternoons under the grapevine trellises built in their gardens, where they enjoy chatting while drinking milk tea (sun cai in Sibe), accompanied by fruits and vegetables from their gardens and simple ready-made dishes served on a table.
Sibe people follow Beijing time (Chinese standard time) and refer to this time of day as “xiawu (afternoon)” using the Chinese term. In Beijing time, it is already around 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.—more like evening than afternoon—but since sunrise and sunset occur here more than two hours later than in Beijing, the sun still remains high in the southern sky. Such a mysterious time—neither quite afternoon nor evening,—lingers leisurely until dusk in Chapchal.
August 23, 2012
Chapchal Sibe (Xibe) Autonomous County, China
Photographed by Norikazu KOGURA
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