National Ethnic Minority Theme Park

China is as you know very big and there are a variety of ethnic groups, actually 56 of them. The vast majority, 95% are Han-Chinese but given China’s big population the remaining five percent are not so few.

China’s all minority groups are represented in a large park in the northern part of Beijing. There are replicas of typical buildings and also representatives from each ethnic group. Every day they perform, sing, dance and plays theater to show how it can look like where they come from. They tell a little about their traditions (only in Chinese) and perform short plays to show how it can be. It is actually very interesting and the park feels fresh and well made. It was not very many people there (very few compared to the Chinese standard) when I visited the park. Perhaps because it was quite expensive to enter, about 90 yuan.

I can certainly recommend a visit to the park since it is very interesting to see how it looks like in different parts of China. The minorities are actually quite different from each other in appearance, too. Perhaps not surprising, given how big the country is.