my favorite part about hohhot- they translate the park signs into chinese pinyin. i've never seen this before! they just couldn't go that extra step and put it in english. who is this helping? 'zhu yi an quan' basically means 'be cautious', which i know because i hear it on the bus overhead every time it approaches a stop.
interesting note about the character for 'an' which means safety- the bottom part is the character 'nv' which means woman, and the top part is supposed to be a shelter. so safety is when a woman is in the home...these characters are obviously old as dirt, but i feel like this idea is still prevalent today, at least among the generation before me and older. the men here always seem to go out with out their girlfriends/wives.
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