Community Park

A pleasant walk for less than a mile north from our appartment leads to a park that is a narrow green strip stretching for several miles along Beitucheng Road. The park commemorates the Yuan dynasty capital of Dadu that predates the Ming dynasty Beijing, and runs along the old earthen city wall and moat. There are a few historical relics in the stretch we walked - a local website describes "a restored waterspout, one of the old city's eight great drainage ditches" and there is an "ancient boat with tea fragrance" - and some modern sculptures and murals describing the history. But mainly the park is a strip of pleasant gardens where people come to walk, exercise, play, and sing, and go boating on the river, in the way the Chinese seem to love to do.


Reading about the Park


Kublai Khan Sculpture


Choir Group


Wedding Boat


Exercise Game


Old Stlye - New Style


Boating on the Moat

We had lunch in this little restaurant next to the park.


Lunch Restaurant
We were initially attracted to it by a long line of people buying something from a takeaway window. This turned out to be separate from the restaurant, but the waitress was quite happy to get us a piece of the fresh corn bread that was being sold. We also had dumplings, including some glazed ones that we hadn't seen before.


Fresh Cornbread


Glazed Dumplings