One of the Chinese New Year breaks, I decided to follow my neighbours back to their hometown in Henan. Henan is a province in the centre of China and is largely an agricultural province. According to Wikipaedia, Henan is China’s third-most populous province with over 94 million people and if it were a country by itself, it would be the 14th-most populous country in the world, ahead of Egypt and Vietnam. However, it is one of the less-developed areas in China economically. Henan is the birthplace of Chinese civilization (Han), with over 3,200 years of recorded history. It has many ancient cultural and heritage sites that I wanted to see, such as the Shaolin Temple and the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, but that has to wait until another trip couple of years later. In this trip, my focus was on experiencing life in a small nondescript town in Henan during Chinese New Year and doing a farm stay at my neighbours grandfather’s farm.
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