Today was a busy, long day but at least it wasn’t hot. We flew from Xian to Beijing and then visited the Forbidden City and Tian’anmen Square. After the tour, I still had energy to go out for Peking Duck with 3 other people from the tour at the restaurant the tour guide recommended.
Young women get dressed in traditional clothes and put on makeup to go to popular/beautiful sites and have their friends take pictures of them. It’s a national past time. The Chinese government will give free public transit to women wearing traditional clothes to promote nationalism. We saw them in all the places we stopped, walking along the streets, shopping, riding motorbikes or riding bikes. They usually weren’t wearing traditional slippers but rather were wearing tennis shoes or other modern footwear.
