Hezhou.

Huangyao, in Hezhou’s Zhaoping County, offers a focused way into eastern Guangxi. Read its old streets through the crossings that connect them, the trees that shade them and the meanings attached to surrounding hills. The water-gathering and pomelo-lantern traditions bring another timescale to the same setting. These are stories of an inhabited town, with public spaces, private homes and changing uses, rather than a preserved stage waiting for visitors.