Snow in Beijing.

[randomness]

A video from Janek Zdzarski:

and a gallery of photos from Huang Jiwei:

Thanks to Jeremy Goldkorn and to Joel Martinsen, both at danwei.org. Mr. Martensen mentions that Mr. Huang 'prefaced [his photos with] a quote from the poet Yin Lichuan, "When it snows, the northern capital becomes northern peace," a line that plays on the capital's current and former names: Beijing (北京) vs. Beiping (北平).'

"一下雪，北京就成了北平"——尹丽川

Comments

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I find that traditional Chinese and Japanese architecture really lends itself extremely well to transformation via snow. Really some quite nice effects.