China is big...that kind of big only surpassed by huge-big Russia. And that's why we keep on travelling through China to visit one more city.
This time we visit Canton, which is better known as Guangzhou.
I've always heard talking about Canton as a region in China not a city, and here's why:
"The English name "Canton" derived from Portuguese Cantão[28] or Cidade de Cantão,[29] a muddling of dialectical pronunciations of "Guangdong"[30][31] (e.g., Hakka Kóng-tûng). Although it originally and chiefly applied to the walled city, it was occasionally used in English in reference to Guangdong by mistake."
Because we were everywhere in the world lol
Seeing the card picture and reading the description something is off. Because the card back talks about a great wall around the city but it is not pictured in the figure. You can only see rustic buildings and those characteristic sail boats. But it seems quite a view.
Visit the city's wiki page here.
Nowadays when I see the name 'Canton' I immediately think of the town in north Texas with that name. It holds a monthly craft fair/flea market. When I was teaching the women teachers treated it as Mecca. They were either talking about driving up for it or about what they picked up there.
ReplyDeleteThe Portuguese really are everywhere. LOL When I was a kid my grandfather used to get Portuguese-language newspapers that were published in a colony in India. Gol or something like that. He had distant family there.
US have more towns with European towns names than any other country =P
DeleteI think you meant Goa. No? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa
Can't imagine how long it took for them to build a wall around the entire city 25 to 40 feet high. That's one amazing project.
ReplyDeleteTalking about walls... ;)
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