A Visit to The People’s Park [Film/Video]

A Visit to The People’s Park – Audio with motion image
Back in older decades, there were parks build by government everywhere in China. Under the political impact, all these gardens have a same name: People’s Park. Park is a public garden. Park is the only place where people can see many plants in the city. And at that time, no one in the city have an available private land for garden, so park became the only place they can go when they want to spend their spare time having fun. People love to exercise there in the morning. Naughty kids will stayed there late after school. Fashion people will dance with the loud music playing by their speakerphone(Dancing halls were forbidden at that time). People have a good memory about parks. You can see many beautiful scenes happened in the fake story written on the textbooks.
But few would think about going to parks nowadays. People who want to see nature to relax, would drive or take bus to suburb area where has natural views, or they would climb the mountain. The rest of them won’t even have any intention to see nature. People’s Parks are going to be forgotten. And some of them have already been shut down.
Now only few old people would go there for a walk(I guess it might be their habit). And in most of the time, some place of the park will be rent out to some petty dealers. They seem no more parks.
This video work (actually it is more a video) contains the sound record of my visit to a local People’s Park. It presents my rare park memory and the condition of the present People’s Parks.

 

A Visit to A People’s Park from Tang Yi on Vimeo.