Evolution


I have been to Changsha-the capital of Hunan province of China, a couple of times in the past but I had never traveled around the city. Yesterday I could spare some hours to get around Changsha after an official visit. Compare with metropolitan cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou, Changsha is very small but it is in the rapid stage of development. The huge structures of buildings are on its ways to get triumph over the sky and luxury vehicles are impatiently waiting for the signal to bound on the wide roads. There is an hour drive to Shaoshan the birthplace and the ancestral house of Mao Zedong the late great leader of China. It has been renewed to a relic Museum that attract millions a year.
While walking around the city I noticed a place that looked like a bazaar. It was extremely crowded and the people were endlessly shouting and screaming. In the entrance itself there was a line of busy meat stalls exhibit bleeding meats hanging upside down. At a close look I noticed a head of an animal with long teeth swinging on a hook and afterwards I witnessed many dogs locked in cages waiting for its turn at back of the stalls. There were poultry shops with beautiful lovely birds for the sharp knife. In the other side many grilled cages filled with live snakes and tortoise. The butcher hung a snake on its neck and peel it alive.. oh goodness! The sales was at peak in the afternoon and the mob was moving in like waves. I hastily walk out of the market without having a glance back.
While traveling back, at the car; I recalled one of my European friends saying “whatever development is, the evolution process of the mankind is yet to complete”

1 comment:

Sajeesh .V. Balan said...

The eating habit of all animals are different in different parts of the world. The hasitation to what we are not used to do is only psychological one. When somebody, who never seen eating chicken, look at us when we eat it lovely will feel the same. This is true in all cases.