April 4 is the qingming day, an important traditional day for remembering the dead and the dearly departed. In the qingming day, the chinese families used to leave the homes and to sweep the graves of their forebears. And this year, it is the first time for the qingming day being officially listed as a public vacation. fortunately, april 4 occured on friday.

We took the advantage to have a three-day trip to laiyuan to pay our respect to the martyrs during april 4-6. Laiyuan was an important battlefield during the second sino-japanese war. shafei, war photographer at that time, took a lot of photos about the battles happen on laiyuan section of the great wall([link=http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/zhuanti/antijapan/photo/images2/0140.jpg]...

hi, this is a joint id from peking, china.

yes, carmen as the wife and tianya is the name of the husband. we are both very interested in outdoor sports and taking photos. we are models of each other. you can find our images, especially those backs, here and there in our uploads.

we spent lots of weekends in the mountains, trekking along the great wall or looking for new blossom of wild flowers. carmen's biggest wish is to trek along the great wall as long as she can. and tianya's biggest wish is to taking photos for wild flowers as much as he can find.

each year, we make it out for a long trip to the southwest of china. landscape and tibetan culture there are amazing. flowers at high altitude are extremely beautiful.

now, we are newcomers in dreamstime. we just ...