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The slow flowing Yangtze river on one side, the four-million city Yichang on the other. Separating the from the city a green, public park where city people rest, breathe and meet for a game of cards or a music session. Or a picnic. A group of chinese women and men chant prayers. They bless crates full of living carp before they carry them down to the Yangtze river. Two boys around ten train polejumping with a wood pole. They dream of competing in an Olympic game. An artificial park with constructed small cliffs and rocks offer a view over the brown, slowly and majestically floating river Yangtze. Older men sit in groups of four and four and play cards. Some smack the cards on the small table, they shout and laugh loud. Others are solemn, dead quite and focused on the game. Along the riverbanks fishermen with huge bamboostick landing-nets sweeps the brown, muddy water for a catch. Under a shaded roof popular folksongs are played by ageing musicians on the . . . . . . . . . . . >  ................................................................................