福利古镇

This guide to Fuli, an old wharf town on the Li River near Guilin, follows the coastal traders who sailed inland for over a thousand years, settled, and brought their sea goddess Mazu with them to a hall called Tianhou Palace. It traces how the same boats carried bamboo and rice paper that local craftsmen folded into fans, a trade one painter, Li Zhenou, carried all the way to Tiananmen Square. Listen for what remains of the old three streets, nine wells and eighteen lanes.