Master Gu pointed at the pile of bricks near the watchtower and explained that after three-century long history, the walls were destroyed three times during the course of the 20th century. Once when the Chinese armies were attacking the Japanese in the region, once during the Cultural Revolution (文化大革命) when the walls had become the symbol of the feudal society of the past and one last time during the ‘Study Dazhai’ (农业学大寨) of the late 1970s.
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Exploring the maze with Master Gu
We went from courtyard to another, entering from a main massive and meticulously decorate stone gate and exiting from a hidden door in the back into a narrow alley. Master Gu was a man of few words, but he always told me which family the courtyard we were in belonged to or which temple we were passing by.
