Five postcards from China!

People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a country in East Asia. The capital is Beijing. The population is about 1,330,044,000. Official language is Standard Chinese. China's geography is highly diverse, with hills, plains and river deltas in the east and deserts, high plateaus and mountains in the west. The Chinese name is "Zhong Guo", which means the "Middle Kingdom". Since ancient times people believed that China was at the center of the universe. China is home to one of the world’s first human civilizations (alongside with the ancient Egypt, the Babylon and the ancient India). For more than 40 centuries Chinese people created a culture with strong philosophies, traditions and values. It is so old that its true age has yet to be determined. The oldest written records date back roughly 4,000 years, but it is likely that there were even earlier societies. What we now call China became a unified state in 221 B.C. under the so-called First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who started the system of dynastic rule that would last until the twentieth century. Nowadays the PRC is a single-party state governed by the Chinese Communist Party.

National anthem is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctriMuXYS0

All postcards show people in Anhui, a province in China, the part of the East China region.

Thanks  a lot for the postcards, Wang Gang!