Jingshan Park

Jingshan Park is to the north of the Forbidden City area. The Coal Hill is rising in the middle and we dicided first to climb there. On the top of the hill there is a round pagoda.
This park famous of the old men walking their birds in the park. They hang the nets on the trees and start chatting with some old frend, play some game or just take a sun bath. In the rear of the park there is a square reserved for dancing pairs and on some other open place we met some wimin with swords practising together some dance like Chinese version of kenjutsu perhaps.

You'll see some pictures from: Imperial Palace Museum (forbidden city), the Temple of Heaven Park, Summer Palace, Bell and Drum Tower, Jingshan Park (Coal Hill), Bei Hai Park, Zoo, Tianmen Square, a Budhist temple in the city - nearly in every most interesting place in Bejing and short way outside like the Great Wall and the Imperial Summer Palace.


Other trips on this site:
Prague, Izmir and Rome.
My other hobbies are:
Guitar playing and making music, renovation or building houses, building scale models, writing and reading books. Mainly historical - novels or classics.

 

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Behind the Jigshan Park we met a group of people dancing by the music of a tiny tape recorder.

Cannot tell precisely what is the name of this dance like practise by swords. Maybe Chinese version of kenjutsu?

This is a small pacoda on the way up to the Coal Hill.

I'm scanning some more pictures to continue this article.

Please visit on the other China pages: a trip to the Forbidden City and a visit to the Summer Palace. We allso visited the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven Park, Bell and Drum Tower, Jingshan Park (Coal Hill), Bei Hai Park, Zoo, Budhist temple, Tianmen Square and around the Beijing city.

 

Other trips on this site: Prague, Izmir and Rome.

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