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Street Scene of Kunming 1945

Street Scene of Kunming 1945
Submitted by AH Leung
Authors: 
Alfred Leung
Tags: 
Charlie Leung Chung-Yee
Leung Chung-Yee
BAAG
Kunming
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, September 30, 1945
Gallery: 
1940s-50s Charlie Leung Chung Yee's photos
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Submitted by tngan on Fri, 2020-09-11 11:18.

Hi There,

The photo showed the 金馬  (Golden Horse) & 碧雞 (Jade Chicken) Pai Lau, which was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.  The location was in theart of Kwun Ming City.  The current location is called 金馬碧雞坊, a pedestrain district and tourist attraction.  Accorxding to Wiki the Pai Laus showed in the photo was a rebuilt in 1884.  The originals were built further back in the Ming Dynastry under Xuande (宣德帝) Emperor, who reigned from 1425 to 1435.  The originals were destroyed 1857.

The current version was built around 1998-1999.

T

Submitted by AH Leung on Fri, 2020-09-11 10:52.

Thank you so much tngan for providing context to this photo. I have virtually no idea of Kunming at that time. Perhaps I need to do some research online to see if I can add some context to the other few photos of Kunming that I have uploaded here.

Alfred

Submitted by tngan on Fri, 2020-09-11 11:23.

Hi There,

Don't mention it.  These two photos has clear clues on them.  I was just using Google to look up text string like 昆明 ＋塔  or 昆明 +金馬　for the look-ups.  The rest was just copy and paste or some simple preci\translation.

T