Seventy-nine-year-old Wang Baorong (centre), dressed in military style clothes, and other participants perform square dancing at a park square in Beijing, China. Photo: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Seventy-nine-year-old Wang Baorong (centre), dressed in military style clothes, and other participants perform square dancing at a park square in Beijing, China. Photo: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Chinese-style square dancing is running circles around other hobbies for the elderly, with huge numbers – more than 100 million, according to Xinhua news agency – taking to parks and plazas across China, swivelling their hips and rolling their arms.
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