Jingzhou is my favorite city in China. It was the first city I lived in, and it has a more realistic flavor to it. While cities like Shanghai look flashy and modern, they do not feel like “real China” and this authentic-ness is something you have to go to places like Jingzhou to experience.
A busy street in Jingzhou, China in 2021. A woman sells watermelons from her tricycle-truck.I took this photo from the window of a coffee shop. This street leads to Yangtze University.A market street in Jingzhou. Every morning the street is filled with vegetables and half-butchered animals for sale. There is also a shop that makes grain alcohol and has large piles of grain fermenting on the sidewalk outside the shop.
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