Young Norwegian College Students In Baoding
  On Dec. 9. 2001, a group of Norwegian students from Lillehammer College came to Baoding, an ancient city with a history of over 1300 years and a population of 11 million. During their two-day stay in Baoding, the young students and their teachers paid a special visit to the local village, Xiwangqi Village, a tiny farmers' village 50 miles south of Baoding. There are about over 2000 people living in that village. The host and hostess offered the students farmer's food including sweet potatoes, vegetables and Jiaozi, a typical Chinese festival food. In fact, this village is an administrative unit of the County Anguo, a herbal city well-known in China. People here have formed the habit of growing Chinese medicinal herbs for over 2000 years, thus they also established a giant herb market selling hundreds of different grasses and roots or seeds which are believed to have been used as the medicine by the Chinese people for thousands of years.

    While wandering in the thousand-year-old street of Anguo, the foreigners are astonished to find the whole city full of all kinds of herbs. And the local travel agency treated the students with a herbal food banquet. They felt not only surprised, but rather scared at what are served on the table. They drank the snake wine, ate (stared at) the scorpions and grasshoppers.

    The following morning, the students were obliged to get up as early as 6:00 in the morning, to attend the morning exercises in a park. In the park, they found hundreds of people, mostly elderly, doing all kinds of activities to keep fit. There are Beijing Opera Group, shuttle-cock kicking group, massage group, taiji group, iron-ball rotating group, hollow bamboo group, dancing group, singing group. They students surely had a wonderful morning.

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