CM#14 The Chicken Dance
A week or two after the shot in CM#13, we were back on our neighboorhood pedestrian commercial area when we happened upon a festival of sorts. I hastily threw Alison onto my shoulder, much to the bemusement of the folks around, and got her to tape the show from her vantage point.
Turns out it was a part of the Guangdong Tourism Festival that seems to have been going on that week. They had a big stage set up in the square, and a crowd of people were trying to get a closer look. By the time we arrived, the crowd had gotten so big that even I could hardly see what was happening, which is why I got Alison up on my shoulders.
The dance itself was pretty wierd, nothing that I would have assumed was a traditional folk dance. The costumes were a little fancy for that, but who am I to speak of it.
This is one of the reasons why we like living so close to this street. Even though it is not the main shopping area in GZ - there is Beijing Road, which I will get to later, and the Tian He shopping complex, which you saw in CM#5 - Shang Xia Jui is a vibrant place and there is always something going on.