Water Blockage 1988

At dawn, more than 80 young people from Huangtou Village set out carrying bedrolls and pushing trolleys. A bedroll is a dirty, shabby quilt with cotton exposed everywhere and a single tattered straw mat rolled into a tube, tied with hemp rope, and carried on the shoulder. There were shovels, poles, hemp ropes, wicker baskets, stone strips, grain, pots and pans scattered all over the cart.