I was running through a small park one morning. I was about a mile in, and came to a split on the path. I went to the left and ended up on a go-kart track. The track opens at 7:30, so they were closed, and I got to run laps on a go-kart race track. When I got to the back corner of the track, I started hearing some intense rave music. When I got closer, I realized there was an old man (maybe 60) doing Tai-Chi. He had brought his beat box and was jamming out to techno music while doing his Tai-Chi…. Take a moment and visualize this. There is no one around, it's a secluded, wooded, corner of a go-kart track, and there is an old man doing Tai-Chi while blasting Techno on his cassette boom box. Tai Chi is very popular in China. Sometimes we see people doing it with swords as well. There are other aspects I don't understand yet. One is clapping, you see people walking through the park clapping all the time. Another is yelling. That same day while running, there was a man standing off to the side yelling "AYE" in all four directions. He would yell, turn, yell, turn, yell…. I kept my distance.
-JASON
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I can explain the clapping thing here. In traditional Chinese medical science, it's said there are many acupuncture points on both hands, and they have some kind of connections to the internal organs like heart, liver and lungs. People(especially elder people) belive that clapping is going to massage those points and good for health. I also heard someone saying that clapping those points are like clapping the internal organs, and makes the organs stronger and healthier.
Chen
When you come back to the states you should open a chain of tecno Tai-Chi businesses!! It would rock!!! I can see the tv ads now! You of couse have your shirt off and a mullet, screaming at the tv about the benefits of "Jason's Tecno-Chi"!!!
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