To search Guang Chang Wu (Chinese for square dancing) on Baidu.com, you can get about 184 million pieces of news, 4,665 music, 777 dancing groups, and of course numerous comments either supporting and disapproving. Here are eight stories about square dance you don't want to miss.
A thousand square dancers in Xi'an swear to reduce noise
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Dancers put "NO" posters on the speaker boxes as a gesture of their determination to keep a quiet and peaceful night for the residents nearby. |
Those dancers put "NO" posters on the speaker boxes as a gesture of their determination to keep a quiet and peaceful night for the residents nearby.
Grannies turn streets into strange dance floors
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Women holding toy guns dance to a revolutionary song during their exercise at a square outside a shopping mall in Beijing, June 29, 2014.
About 30 local residents formed the "Nanguan" art group that performs to revolutionary songs as part of their nighttime fitness activities.
Shanghai residents 'support' square dancers
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Let them dance to the right tune
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These activities are also an effective way of keeping people more aware, having better memory and even delaying some of the negative traits of diseases such as Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia which are becoming more frequent today as people live longer.
Tourists stopped while dancing in Taiwan's hotel
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Public weighs in on noise rule
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Violators will be fined up to 1,000 yuan ($160), according to the draft. Additionally, the organization that hosts the dancing will be fined up to 10,000 yuan.
Square dance on the expressway
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One netizen posted the photos of the dance on Weibo, China's Twitter-like micro-blogging site, and the performance has generated lots of discussion online. While some people commented that dancing is a good exercise, others said that it is too dangerous to dance on an expressway.
Chinese senior citizens broke new dancing ground - Red Square in Moscow - with square dancing. The dancing caught the attention of local police, who went to the site to check out the activity, gmw.cn reported on Sunday.
Square dancing, a type of dance popular with the elderly in China, has been launched anywhere at anytime, such as at subway exits, in train carriages and even on the expressway. In April, several seniors were seen square dancing in the square of the Louvre Museum in Paris.