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Every weekend in People`s Park, parents laminate their kid`s height, salary, and 户口 (hùkǒu, "household registration") onto A4 paper and hang it off an umbrella. This is the famous 人民公园相亲角, aka Shanghai`s marriage market.

We can`t compete with the shushus and aunties. We just want to help.

Aug 19 at @junto_shanghai . Bring a deck. Pitch one single friend in 5 minutes. Bullet points, receipts, an unflattering photo from before Rudy Janto was born. (You`re asking who Rudy Janto is? Check the poster.)

Be creative, yap about your friend`s whole inner world, or build a deck for yourself.

But anyone who pitches a friend — and the friend getting pitched — drinks free.

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Even when he`s floating in a residential pool, the music is still in his ears. That was Fangde`s (@fangde665 ) first answer about Chengdu.

This August, Marshall (@marshall ) took over Eastern Suburb Memory in Chengdu for six days of Keep Live Music Alive —a culture festival that is the first of its scale staged by Marshall anywhere in the world. Built with Tmall, the festival ran a lineup that stretched from rock fixtures to names most people outside the city haven`t heard yet. Stolen (@stolen_official ) played that stage on 8 August, alongside Second Hand Rose. We caught them after the set and asked what their Chengdu actually looks like.

So we got the pool. A tiny livehouse that`s been torn down and rebuilt and torn down again. A noodle shop that stays open just for the stragglers.

Sixty years of standing behind the people playing — Marshall calls that Made of Loud. We wanted to pick it up from there: five people from different corners of the country with the guitars down. They talk about music the way they talk about this city.

Their Chengdu guide is unofficial by design. In their own words: "It`s not that clean, but it`s wild. I love wild places." Unofficial, unrestricted, unbothered. Messy, and still a place everyone keep coming back to.

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Somebody in Beijing turned the fairground ring toss into a citywide event, and the hardest station is a fire hydrant.

The game is 套圈 (tàoquān, "ring toss") — the carnival stall where you lob a hoop over a prize and take home whatever it lands on. Someone pulled the 22cm ring out of the fairground and pointed it at the street instead. Confirmed targets so far: hydrants, QR codes, security cameras, street signs, one fountain.Turns out the city is full of unexpected targets.

What makes it interesting is the way you see the city from a different angle. In a place that usually demands speed and efficiency, we finally get the opportunity to slow down and notice things we had walked past for years. When we turn the city into a free playground, maybe we won’t feel as numb and lost in the tide of city lives.

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Move over, Perler beads. The craft catching on with China’s urban youth now is 拼布 (pīnbù, ”assembled cloth“), or patchwork.

For most of the past year, young China sat in shops placing tiny plastic beads with tweezers. 拼豆 (pīndòu, ”perler beads“) — as a “childhood hobby”, a way to slow down and make something real with your hands, with a big emotional payoff.

Now some of those same people are putting the tweezers down and picking up scrap fabric.

Grandma‘s quilting circle had this figured out first.

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Remember the fox-and-tiger board game? The tabletop 志怪 (zhìguài, "records of the strange") revival has a second act, and this one puts you on payroll.

《阴阳差事录》(yīnyáng chāishì lù, "The Yin-Yang Errands") builds its whole board around two figures lifted out of folk belief. The first is 走无常 (zǒu wúcháng, "walking as the wuchang") — an ordinary living person conscripted after dark to work as a constable for the underworld, then sent home by morning to get on with their day. The second is 掠剩使 (lüè shèng shǐ, "commissioner of seized surplus"), a supernatural official whose entire job is confiscating whatever wealth you earned beyond what fate allotted you. An auditor. In hell.

Play it and you get warrants, quotas, a salary for passing the starting square, and the option to burn money for a ghost to make a problem go away. Players on Xiaohongshu keep landing on the same reaction: how is there still a job down there.

Seems like Chinese hell was always modelled on the imperial civil service.

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