Travel: Get a glimpse of real China in the park It's living, dancing Taoism in practice - Tom Barber joins the tree-huggers and tai chi experts in one of Beijing's communal green spaces

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 9, 1999| Author: Tom Barber | Copyright information

TO THE uninitiated, visiting a Chinese park is like inadvertently stumbling on to the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In the sprawling grounds of Peking's Tiantan Park, the first people I spotted were two old women chatting animatedly while jogging around the perimeter. Backwards.

Nearby, several old men were performing synchronised, slow-motion sword- fighting routines, and in a glade of ancient thuja trees there was a more reclusive pastime going on - tree hugging. Spend half...

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