At the option of random encounters, Patrice Fava, anthropologist and filmmaker, has traveled the cities and especially rural China, where traditions, mostly inherited from Taoism, are very much alive. It describes a leisurely life in the Buddhist and Taoist monasteries, the rise of the famous Huangshan Mountain, the harvest and how they mowed wheat with a scythe army whose model dates back to the fourteenth century, the ancient puppets a troop of peasants in the province of Shanxi, the calligraphy of poems, making spectacular noodles, the festival of the summer solstice, with its boat races and improvised singing competitions in the province of Hunan, flounder fishing that recalls the paintings of the Song period, the largest market for medicines in the city of Chengdu, the bird market in Beijing, the various martial arts we practice early in the morning in parks and streets of Shanghai.