The document summarizes a photo essay about the beauty and history of the Great Wall of China. It discusses how the Great Wall stretches over 4,000 miles and was built by hand over 3,000 years ago to ward off invaders. It also tells a famous Chinese folktale about a woman named Meng Jiang Nu who walked thousands of miles to find her husband who had died while working on the Wall. The document highlights how the Great Wall symbolizes love, sacrifice, and heroism in Chinese culture and history.

1. A Taste of China
A photo essay covering the beauty of the Great Wall of China
Photos taken and Slide Show Produced by
David G. Sherburne
Queptography – “Unique Photography “
Music Credits are being determined

3. THE GREAT WALL
History, Culture & Chinese Symbolism
THE GREAT WALL SYMBOLIZES LOVE, SACRIFICE
AND HEROISM;
IT EMBRACES UNIVERSAL VIRTUES OF HUMANITY
EMANATING FROM;
THE PROFOUND HISTORY AND RICH CULTURE OF
THE CHINESE

4. The Chinese call the Great Wall the "Wall of Ten Thousand Li (kilometers)". The
Great Wall, with a width of six horses standing side by side, stretches over 4,000
miles, farther than the distance from New York to San Francisco. It was built by
hand over 3,000 years ago to ward off the invading Huns. How the stones on the
Wall were bonded before the advent of modern building methods such as
cement is a wonder. The effort to feed the army of workers on the Wall project
alone is imponderable.

5. The Chinese call the Great Wall the "Wall of Ten Thousand Li (kilometers)". The
Great Wall, with a width of six horses standing side by side, stretches over 4,000
miles, farther than the distance from New York to San Francisco. It was built by
hand over 3,000 years ago to ward off the invading Huns. How the stones on the
Wall were bonded before the advent of modern building methods such as
cement is a wonder. The effort to feed the army of workers on the Wall project
alone is imponderable.

6. The Chinese call the Great Wall the "Wall of Ten Thousand Li (kilometers)". The
Great Wall, with a width of six horses standing side by side, stretches over 4,000
miles, farther than the distance from New York to San Francisco. It was built by
hand over 3,000 years ago to ward off the invading Huns. How the stones on the
Wall were bonded before the advent of modern building methods such as
cement is a wonder. The effort to feed the army of workers on the Wall project
alone is imponderable.

7. The Chinese call the Great Wall the "Wall of Ten Thousand Li (kilometers)". The
Great Wall, with a width of six horses standing side by side, stretches over 4,000
miles, farther than the distance from New York to San Francisco. It was built by
hand over 3,000 years ago to ward off the invading Huns. How the stones on the
Wall were bonded before the advent of modern building methods such as
cement is a wonder. The effort to feed the army of workers on the Wall project
alone is imponderable.

8. The Chinese call the Great Wall the "Wall of Ten Thousand Li (kilometers)". The
Great Wall, with a width of six horses standing side by side, stretches over 4,000
miles, farther than the distance from New York to San Francisco. It was built by
hand over 3,000 years ago to ward off the invading Huns. How the stones on the
Wall were bonded before the advent of modern building methods such as
cement is a wonder. The effort to feed the army of workers on the Wall project
alone is imponderable.

14. Folktales derived from the Great Wall are legendary. Most
popular of all is the sad and tragic story of Meng Jiang Nu
and her husband Fan Shi Liang. Fan was drafted to build
the Wall soon after their wedding. Worried about the
severe weather, Meng knitted a blanket for her husband,
and walked thousands of miles to where he was working,
only to be told that he was dead. She cried day and night.
Suddenly a portion of the Wall crumbled, exposing the
body of her beloved.
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The Chinese Fine Arts Society (CFAS) was founded in 1984 as a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to the education and
promotion of the Chinese cultural arts. In Chicago’s culturally diversified society, CFAS provides programs and activities that
promote the understanding of Chinese culture through music and other fine arts. By presenting traditional Chinese music
compositions by Chinese composers and performances of Chinese music on western instruments, CFAS hopes to reach a
broad audience and heighten their awareness of the richness of Chinese culture.

17. The folk song 'Meng Jiang-Nu,' which narrates this tragic love
story, is known to generations of Chinese. Another popular
tune 'The Song of the Great Wall' by contemporary Chinese
composer Liu Shiu-An, invokes melancholic sentiments of
historic and patriotic events associated with the Wall. More
recently, Chinese-American writer professor Katherine Cho
created new lyrics for the same melody, expressing
introspective sentiments of overseas Chinese expatriated from
their homeland.

44. Special Thanks to my colleague and friend
Alina Zhou

45. Queptography
Unique Photography
by
David G. Sherburne