If to be passed in the morning across Beijing in each park, beginning from tiny, broken at houses and finishing known parks at palaces and temples, it is possible to observe people of all age which are going in for sports, but not habitual to us zarjadkoj or run, and traditional Chinese gymnastics.

It is considered, that it provides free circulation of vital energy in an organism and promotes disclosing of its opportunities.

At early o'clock leave on streets of the master; they not only practise in the art, but also compete with each other in a writing of hieroglyphs water on asphalt, or bear in cells of goldfinches and listen, whose today sings better. To see the present masters to us and it was not possible, because an ambassadorial gate open only in eight mornings. On platforms of the park which is being near to embassy, people, having broken into groups on 4-5 person, synchronously made exercises. One practised with swords, others - with palkami, the third - with a fan; along a fence those who was engaged in respiratory gymnastics were built. Respiratory exercises have ended with loud shout which voices of all was in park have instantly joined. Recently in China ball dances have become fashionable - the dance pavilion has been jam-packed young, elderly and average years in pairs - will dance hour or so, and for work. Nobody confuses neither absence of skill, nor an abundance of the gapers crowding behind a fencing.

And in the street the morning life boils: snujut bicyclists, working carry on restaurants greater carriages with vegetables and greens, schoolboys in red pioneer ties hasten on employment, and above a gate buddistskogo a monastery pigeons loudly coo.

Once and park in which we just walked, and neighboring houses belonged to Mission; here near to it there lived orthodox Chineses. Streets on which we go, are consecrated by blood of martyrs. It is difficult to imagine, that here it was created only hundred years ago...

Probably, there were same sunny days, and magnificent crones of trees threw back a shadow the same as and today... The alarm Everywhere reigned - here already people with red bandages safely appear in streets of city; hearings that one of these days zapolyhaet Mission go. One families left the houses and searched for shelters at relatives, others, expecting fires, have remained in the dwellings. More month an arbitrariness ihetuanej proceeded - burned temples, houses, trees, gibli people. As the eyewitness of revolt archpriest Sergy wrote the Tub which has lost all family, " at that time there was, apparently, no person who would not shout sha * ".

Sacred martyrs Chinese, ask the God about us!

* See clause " Varfolomeevskaja night in China " on a site of "oiia-center"