As I reviewed the blog posts from our trip to China, I was surprised at how few photos I posted. I guess between everyone being sick and the fact that when I went to blogspot all the menus in Chinese, it wasn't too easy to upload the photos.
I've always wanted to share this photo, which captures one aspect of daily life in China. Every morning, people (mostly retirees, I think) gather in the public parks for physical activities. On any given morning in the park on Shamian Island, you can see people doing traditional Chinese fan dancing, ballroom dancing, informal choir groups, and people engaged in impressively energetic games of what I later learned is called Jianzi in China or Shuttlecock in England. It is like hacky sack, but with something that looks more like a shuttlecock. People stand in a circle and toss the shuttlecock up in the air, catching it on their ankles and tossing it the air again for the next player to catch. These people know what what fun is.
I've always wanted to share this photo, which captures one aspect of daily life in China. Every morning, people (mostly retirees, I think) gather in the public parks for physical activities. On any given morning in the park on Shamian Island, you can see people doing traditional Chinese fan dancing, ballroom dancing, informal choir groups, and people engaged in impressively energetic games of what I later learned is called Jianzi in China or Shuttlecock in England. It is like hacky sack, but with something that looks more like a shuttlecock. People stand in a circle and toss the shuttlecock up in the air, catching it on their ankles and tossing it the air again for the next player to catch. These people know what what fun is.
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