Horse Horse &Tiger Tiger

Shifted back to Beijing for a week I still couldn't get used to the population here.  This is the country I left  a couple of years ago. But now it looks quite strange to me.
Shocking is the population in the city. whenever and wherever you go there are people, noises and dust.  The sardines won't complain about the can if they see the beijing subway in rush hour. Accidents happened that people were pushed down to the rail and got hit by coming train. Just last week news about a uni student was pushed down to track and run over into two pieces triggered a heated discussion on internet.  A girl with a promising future died under the wheel, only because she wanted to go home for school holiday. 
Unfortunately, the uni school holiday overlaped with annual Chinese worst nightmare for transportation -- the Chinese new year season. Hundreds of thousands of peasant-turned workers travel across the country to enjoy their might-once-a-year-only holiday to meet their families.
The box offices usually run out of tickets days before schedule but you can always find one from scalpers.  The ticket booking hotline will always be busy.  You always get rejected for refund if you are not able to get on in the crowd. 


This picture shows yesterday, Jan 26th, over 1 million people stuck at Guangzhou Railway station because the trains ran behind schedule due to bad weather.  1 million people waited in the rain, anxiously waiting for the latest news about their train.
This train station is evaluated to transport  30 million passengers during festival season. The figure is same as for Beijing Statoin.

Another picture here:


If I don't tell you could you imagine this is the Great Wall? It is the Great Wall in last October, not a train or waiting facility. 
Come and join them if you want to see one of the Seven Wonders before it totally vanish on the earth, from human civilization. Otherwise you will only see Great Wall of people.