Childrens day - part two

Replete with new very short haircut and umbrella, I headed towards the park.  There were two new stages and lots of stalls.  The stalls weren't what you'd expect.  It was Children's day so you might expect lots of food stalls and lots of 'tat' for children, but this is china.  There were maybe forty stalls all containing a variety of kitchen appliances, showers, toilets and such like....and all with no customers.
Meanwhile, back at the stage I was watching the dancing, and not quite understanding what was going on.  Various groups came on, some left straight away, some completed whole routines, and others danced for maybe ten seconds and were then ushered off the stage.  No one clapped, for anything or anyone.  All of a sudden a little girl who had earlier been brave enough to ask my name, cam over with a bowl of 'stuff', handed it to me and ran off smiling.  What I got looked like this:

I don't know what it is called in China, but I have had it once before.  It is a local delicacy.  Basically it's cold sugared water with lumps of jelly in it, and something like desiccated coconut in it!  It tastes quite nice!  Anyhow the acts came and went. The usual sort of dancing..

The slightly less usual sort of dancing:

...but all good stuff.  Then came the endless photoshoots, everyone and their dog wanted to be photographed with me...probably posed for about sixty photos!  I took a few in return!

The girl on the right bought me the 'jelly'

all these girls wanted a photo of the 'foreigner'

An ex pupil from the school in which I am working.

 All was going fairly freely, until the people in red jackets arrived.  They were the 'people's propaganda team' or some such translation. They put up a cordon and raised a flag and a sign.  They were in charge and they looked suspiciously at the two strangers, (me and Anna).  We left!...but not after having sneaked a few photos!