- Title: CHINA: Chinese professionals destress with mass pillow fight in Shanghai.
- Date: 26th January 2007
- Summary: (L!1) SHANGHAI, CHINA (JANUARY 20, 2007) (REUTERS) PARTICIPANTS USING PILLOWS TO HIT EACH OTHER DURING START OF MASS PILLOW FIGHT VARIOUS OF PILLOW FIGHTING PARTICIPANTS LOOKING ON AND HOLDING ON TO THEIR PILLOWS (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) 28-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, MISS XU, SAYING: "I feel that everyone can let their hearts out, have fun together and do this without ho
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- Location: China
- Country: China
- Topics: Health,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
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- Story Text: More than 150 Chinese professionals took part in a mass pillow fight organised by an online dating website in the Chinese financial capital of Shanghai. More than one hundred and fifty Chinese professionals participated in a mass pillow fight event on Saturday (January 20) night at a downtown bar in the Chinese financial capital of Shanghai.
The event was organised by a local dating website www.2bwm.com-- it also included various dating games played with a pillow.
The crowd, made up of mostly professionals in their 20s and 30s, held no punches as they went all out at each other with pillows during the 10 minute mass pillow fight finale.
In the end, there were broken pillows, scattered feathers and a whole lot of tired but happy spirits.
"I feel that everyone can let their hearts out, have fun together and do this without holding back. So I am very happy, especially during the finale, I feel very good just by working and sweating it out during the pillow fight," said 28-year-old kindergarten teacher, Miss Xu.
"There are no words that can describe how I am feeling now, I can just say that I am feeling very high," said 21-year-old office worker, Niu Kun (pron: new-koon).
Organisers said they came up with the idea of organising a mass pillow fight after learning of similar events that were held in the United States and Europe.
They see the event as a rare chance for busy Chinese professionals to come together to make friends and also vent out their stress and frustrations.
"Most of these young people face a lot of pressure during work. So this event was an opportunity for them to let their hair down and look back for that kind of innocence during their childhood. Most of all, it is for them to have an outlet to release their stress," said 26-year-old Mr. Wen, one of the organising staff from the 2bwm website.
Organisers said the event was well-received and will look to stage similar mass pillow fights in the future. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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