Guide to the Chinese
PilgrImage Postcards


Once I completed my Chinese pilgrimage (for now), I decided to create and post (to blog and a Facebook page) a "postcard" a day for virtually every place I visited. They ran from September 1, 2012, to the end of February of 2013, and again from September 23 to November 15 of that year. (The break was due to the death of my father in February and my subsequent incapacity to do anything but the essentials.)

I chose one view from each of the temples and other sites I visited, and tried to make it look like the "old timey" postcards made by Curt Teich & Company (scroll down to "Gallery") through roughly eight decades of the 20th century.

By way of illustration, here is an original photo:


And here is the postcard I made from it:

(More about the view here.)
You will also see these postcards in the temple articles I have posted, but in this archive, you'll see nothing but postcards.

Click on a trip number below to see the postcards from that trip, Numbers 1 to 19 (plus Extras). (Trip 20, which would complete my visits to the 142 Key Temples, is still in the dream stage).

I think you'll enjoy these "PilgrImages" (get it?)




The "header" of the main Temple Guy pages is a composite of several postcards
The links will lead you to a page of thumbnails, clicking which will in turn take you to the full "postcard" and a descriptive caption.
  • Trip 1: Zhejiang 1 (Hangzhou, Putuoshan, Ningbo) and Shanghai (August 17-26, 2009)
  • Trip 2: Xi'an 1 (Near the city walls) (August 29-September 2, 2009)
  • Trip 3: Ji'nan (April 3-5, 2010)
  • Trip 4: Chengdu (May 14-17, 2010)
  • Trip 5: Eastern Anhui and Jiangsu (July 20-30, 2010)
  • Trip 6: Xi'an 2 (Outlying Areas) and Ningxia (October 13-20, 2010)
  • Trip 7: Guangzhou (November 19 and December 21, 2010; March 12, 2011)
  • Trip 8: Kunming (June 3-7, 2011)
  • Trip 9: Beijing and Tianjin (July 8-16, 2011)
  • Trip 10: Dongbei, Hebei, and Qingdao (August 24-31, 2011)
  • Trip 11: Zhejiang 2 (Mountains and Wenzhou) (September 12-17, 2011)
  • Trip 12: Fujian North (Fuzhou, Ningde, Fuqing, Putian) (October 22-29, 2011)
  • Trip 13: Henan (October 31-November 5, 2011)
  • Trip 14: Fujian to Guangdong (January 17-22, 2012)
  • Trip 15: Chongqing (June 13-18, 2012)
  • Trip 16: Anhui (June 20-30, 2012)
  • Trip 17: Northern Guangdong (July 22-29, 2012)
  • Trip 18: The Central Area (August 4-15, 2012)
  • Trip 19: Shanxi (August 21-September 3, 2012)
  • EXTRAS: Non-pilgrimage images from Shenzhen and Wuxi

Last updated August 31, 2019

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