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30th March, 2001
February, 1999
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for the Chinese People to enjoy the celebrations of the Spring Festival, at the start of the "Year Of The Rabbit". The stalls on the wide pavement opposite the Exhibition Center were selling a wide variety of goods, including Chinese swords, children's toys and clothes, but most important of all, "FOOD !" in the form of various snacks, savoury buns, bowls of noodles, tasty titbits and kebabs, of which Zhang had four liberally coated with hot chilli sauce. No festival or market would be complete without these snack stalls, which are always a big attraction.
The Temple Fair held outside our hotel in Beijing, on the first day of the New Year, was similarly well serviced with food stalls selling snacks from other provinces, but they had not enjoyed the Dalian sunshine. As in Beijing, a man sitting on a low stool was cleverly weaving insect models out of bamboo leaves. By his nimble fingers the leaves, sometimes split into thread like thickness, were woven into almost lifelike grasshoppers, dragonflies and stick insects.
long as the grasshoppers. All the activities of the Temple Fair were being held on the pavements, but on the square in front of the entrance to the Exhibition Center, more entertainment was in progress. When we got there, a large group of Beijing housewives, all dressed in red and holding yellow cloths, were giving a demonstration with parade ground precision, of their tai chi exercises. From what I could see of them I should imagine that quite a few would have been grandmas, but they were very supple and performed with an elegant style.| Have you enjoyed your visit to the China Pages ? Why not pass them on to your friends ? Make the author very happy ! |
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