That’s Some Sightseeing!

Our first stop of the day was the Banpo museum, an archeological dig of an old matriarchal village. The dig itself was pretty cool. In an abstract sort of way. Because it really was just dirt. Just dirt, with a few holes in the ground, with cardboard signs surmising what might have been. But to imagine back thousands of years ago, how people, real people, just like you and me (but in China, and in a society run by women) lived, that was the cool part.

Then there was the reconstructed village, an outdoor museum of sorts – the sign read “Welcome back 6000 years – Come Visitor, Come!” As I was entering, I noticed two mounds to my right and thought, Gee, those look like breasts turned sideways. I stepped back, and sure enough, it was a large, headless woman, maybe an 18 foot waist, lying on her side, the doorway right at her vagina. Didn’t expect to be walking into a vagina on this trip…