good thread, nice pictures.

having tombs in fields is kinda scary for me, i know it's common in rural China, when you travel on trains in China you see tombs everywhere along the railways in rice fields. i mean what if you have to go to the fileds at night?

Thank you...
...what happens? If you do not know your field (or your neighbour's) good enough, you might stumble over some tombstone <g>. The smallest one i have seen was just 20cm (8 inches) high.

Sen said:

good thread, nice pictures...
...i mean what if you have to go to the fileds at night?

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OMG,the carrots are growing out from dead bodies !
scaring, i'll never eat a carrot :runaway:

shmark said:

Shanghai rural???

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DAMN! I'll never eat anything from China again.. uke: :runaway:
:lol:

yum yum

hahaha, but nowadays you couldn't survive without those "made in China" or "grown in China" :laugh:

shosho said:

DAMN! I'll never eat anything from China again.. uke: :runaway:
:lol:

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ofcourse I could.. Brazil produces almost everything I need, except wheat, but that we can buy from Argentina..

Pretty interesting photos. Shanghai never ceases to amaze whether its the downtown photos or the suburb photos and now the rural pics.

Some of the houses look very western and fancy with attic windows.

How many districts make up Shanghai and just how large is Shanghai including all these districts and what's the total population of all these districts together?

Most of vegetables grow out from shit or urine, befor human know chemistry.
the air you breath may contain something produced when dead bodies were burn.

Who refuse to eat of breath?

to be honesty, thats good for vegetables. natural fertilizer :nuts:

shosho said:

DAMN! I'll never eat anything from China again.. uke: :runaway:
:lol:

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Shanghai has 18 districts and 1 county.

"Suburb" districts:

Baoshan District
Chongming County
Fengxian District
Jiading District
Jinshan District
Minhang District
Nanhui District
Pudong New Area
Qingpu District
Songjiang District

Also given in the map in my original post.


"Downtown" districts:

Changning District
Hongkou District
Huangpu District
Jing'An District
Luwan District
Putuo District
Xuhui District
Yangpu District
Zhabei District

Those make up the area i just marked as "downtown" in the above mentioned map.

Some people might want to beat me for putting Pudong into "suburb", but the largest part of Pudong New Area is suburb. The part of Pudong mostly seen in this forum is the Lujiazui Financial District, the most developed subdivision of the entire Pudong New Area. In the map above it is the part marked as "downtown" east of the Huangpu River. But don't be mistaken by it's apparent "smallness": It will take you about an hour to walk from the Pudong Riverside Park to actual suburbs with mostly residential structures (and at least 2 hours to walk to the nearest field).

The pictures from the Nanhui district were taken about 70 km from downtown!

Suncity said:

Pretty interesting photos. Shanghai never ceases to amaze whether its the downtown photos or the suburb photos and now the rural pics.

Some of the houses look very western and fancy with attic windows.

How many districts make up Shanghai and just how large is Shanghai including all these districts and what's the total population of all these districts together?

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^^^

Thanks for the information!

不客气！

Suncity said:

^^^

Thanks for the information!

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Mind you, ALL soil is made partially of decomposed organisms...

howelee said:

OMG,the carrots are growing out from dead bodies !
scaring, i'll never eat a carrot :runaway:

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but most of those decomposed organisms come from plants, insects or animals, not human bodies.

however, in my hometown people eats a kind of eel, which are often found in graves. Would you like to have a taste? :cheers:

Facial said:

Mind you, ALL soil is made partially of decomposed organisms...

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hmmm... very interesting...

Excellent photos, they do a great job of capturing the real china arround Shanghai. There is one district near Shanghai (an hour's train ride out of Shanghai) where the houses try to emulate victorian mansions, I wonder why?

After amusing myself quite a while with all those replies: The tombs in the picture do not contain bodies. They contain urns with the bones (and other remains) of cremated bodies.
So: there is no contact of the surrounding soil with the leftovers of a human being.

howelee said:

but most of those decomposed organisms come from plants, insects or animals, not human bodies.

however, in my hometown people eats a kind of eel, which are often found in graves. Would you like to have a taste? :cheers:

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Great thread, nise pictures.