{"id":385,"date":"2019-12-21T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2019-12-29T02:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T02:28:04","slug":"fisherman-fishing-with-cormorants-ancient-ritual-since-960-ad-guilin-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/fisherman-fishing-with-cormorants-ancient-ritual-since-960-ad-guilin-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilin, China: fisherman partnering with cormorants to catch fish in ancient tradition dating back to 960 AD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/guilin-fisherman-cormorants-fishing.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/fishing-with-cormorants-china.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/fisherman-with-cormorants-ancient-tradition.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7794859\/Chinese-fisherman-uses-flock-cormorants-haul-catch-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stunning photograph shows an ancient tradition dating back to 960 AD<\/a><br>\nThis is the spectacular moment a fisherman with a close bond to cormorants used a flock of birds to catch big fish in a centuries old ritual in southern China. Photographer Julia Wimmerlin said: &#8216;Seeing this whole process and the beautiful setting where it takes place just takes your breath away.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7794859\/Chinese-fisherman-uses-flock-cormorants-haul-catch-day.html\">Julia Wimmerlin \/ Solent News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Stunning photograph shows an ancient tradition dating back to 960 AD This is the spectacular moment a fisherman with a close bond to cormorants used a flock of birds to catch big fish in a centuries old ritual in southern China. Photographer Julia Wimmerlin said: &#8216;Seeing this whole process<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/fisherman-fishing-with-cormorants-ancient-ritual-since-960-ad-guilin-china\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,12],"tags":[44,45,27,25,50,18,39,52,51,28],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-art","post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-poem","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-us-and-world","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-figures","tag-history","tag-image","tag-life","tag-nature","tag-people","tag-photos","tag-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}