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≡ Phoenix of the Sky ≡

 
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Phoenix of the Sky
 
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Village Life

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Village life in the valleys and mountainside villages of the Phoenix Mountain are very rural.  In fact, Luo and the narrator are the first Easterners to make the treacherous journey to the village in over 50 years.  In the village where Luo and the narrator arrive to, people work hard just to get by on a daily basis.  Most villages can afford four or five "city youths" in the reeducation process, but the impoverish one where the two friends live can only afford the two of them.  Modern conveniences and luxuries like alarm clocks and movie screenings have not even come close to reaching the Phoenix Mountain Valley.  

People work hard with very crude work.  For example, Luo and the narrator initially are required to carry large buckets of human and animal dung on their backs.  Also, they are commanded to work in the depths of the frightening mines.
 
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The treacherous journey through the mountains and valleys usually took weeks to complete.  It was an extremely difficult, strenuous, and life-threatening journey.  Some people even died before they reached their destinations.  77 peaks (some of which soar over 1000 meters high) stretch across the huge landscape of China.  One must be careful to leave their arks when traveling, as a courtesy to those behind them, and to help guide them on a possible return trip.  However, the odds for enemies of Mao are 3/1000 of making it back for people like Luo and the narrator.

 

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