Global Tour|I am in Myanmar - Yangon
Athen's 2024 travel plans:
Now in Myanmar
May 6 ~ May 16 Grape Fang
May 16 ~ June 6 Xiban Fang
June 6 ~ July 6 France
July 6th ~ July 16th, Belgium
July 16 ~ July 20 卢森堡
July 20th ~ August 5th, Netherlands
August 5 ~ October 1 Canada (Quebec, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver),
October 1st ~ October 30th West Coast (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Seattle)
October 30 ~ November 30 South Korea (Seoul, Daegu, Busan, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon)
The Chinese along the way are pleased
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Start with the crowded Shwedagon Pagoda
When I walked into Myanmar, I felt a strong Buddhist atmosphere, and it started with a trip to Shwedagon Pagoda.
When I walked to the gate at the foot of Mount Jinta, I was amused by a cute "strange beast". Its image is cute, but according to its size it is a behemoth.
You have to take the escalator for more than 5 minutes, step by step, through the corridor layer by layer, to get to the "top of the mountain", and when you get to the top, you will be amazed by the size of the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Buddhist buildings around it.
At the same time, I was just in time for the first day of the Songkran New Year in Myanmar, and according to custom, all Buddhists must go to the temple to pray for blessings, so when I reached the top of the mountain, it was already crowded at 5 p.m.
I started my humanities photography when the crowd gathered, and I like to photograph people.
Because of different countries, different nationalities, different faces, different costumes, and different demeanors, you will find the diversity of the world.
When you were in Najaf, the holy city of Shia in Iraq, 2 years ago, you felt the magnificent and ornate Qingzhi Temple of Shia MSL, where devout believers are worshipping day and night.
Last year, you went to the Vatican in Europe and felt the different rituals of Catholics, which were presented in the form of paintings, frescoes, mosaic glass windows.
This year, you have come to Myanmar, the land of Buddhism, which brings new sensations to your visual senses in a new form.
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A ritualistic Burmese New Year
The Burmese New Year, which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year, is similar in customs to Chinese.
On this day, all Burmese women dress ornately (usually more modestly), and some Burmese women bring flowers before entering the temple.
After entering the Buddhist temple, you can pray for blessings, and although the hygiene conditions seen on the streets of Myanmar are poor, the sense of ritual is still very exquisite.
On the first day of the Burmese New Year, the little nuns dressed in pink are giving alms along the street, because it is in the city, most of the residential buildings on both sides of the road are about 10 floors, and you can hear the sound of throwing objects from high altitudes from time to time upstairs, and a lot of money and food are thrown from the windows of residents as if falling from the sky.
In Myanmar, being a monk is a mandatory "rite of passage" for all men, and almost all families send their boys to Buddhist monasteries as minor monks for a few days to several years.
Women also have, as pictured, Burmese nuns dressed in pink, which is the difference between nuns and monks at a glance.
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The faces of the vendors in the Burmese wet market
The next day, I walked into the vegetable market in Myanmar and was attracted by the vendors on the side of the road.
Everywhere I go to a country, I am passionate about street photography. Not only did it allow me to get a closer look at the country's ethnographic structure, but I also got a deeper sense of their lives, capturing those vivid moments and making my trip unforgettable.
The second is that I like to have some kind of connection with the locals, which may be asking for directions, exchanging microbiota, or just introducing them to take a picture of each other. Test the other person's reaction and capture the other person's real expression.
You will find that people in different countries are not wary of strangers differently.
The most "privacy-conscious" I have encountered are in Northern Europe and the United Kingdom.
Secondly, Western Europe (Germany and other continental European countries)
In the third echelon, Latin American countries such as Brazil (probably because of the high crime rate and the lack of security of the population).
Fourth echelon, the United States.