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Hi everyone,

Happy 2026, or the end of the Year of the Snake. I just returned from a 3-week trip to China, where I went to many places for the first time — Lijiang’s Yulong village (for a wedding), Guiyang, Taiyuan (for a wedding) and the nearby Pingyao County.

I can’t say I’ve come to know them that thoroughly from a short stay, but visiting has definit…