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Winter 2015

Homeland

Chengdu old tea house

I'd like to tell you about the People's Park and talk about how it has grown with the times.

The People's Park is located at the center of my home city as a landmark and cultural building. Almost all the local leisure activities can be shown off there and especially drinking tea in bamboo chairs and playing Mahjong are on many peoples’ daily schedule. Temple fairs and lantern festivals are run on important days. As the speeding up of the rhythm of life and the surging of the urban pressure increases, a lager group join in to search for a partner. So, the corner of blind dates came into being built by the parents.

When my friends and family came to visit me in my city, I took them to the park and showed them the signs of the development of this city and hoped they could feel the local culture. At the same time, they could contrast my city with their cities, to find the differences of cultures for example the view of marriage view and the attitudes to life. Maybe one day you will see this park and drink some tea.