A group of older women in Wanda Plaza in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, occupied an indoor basketball court and used it as a venue for square dancing, while teenagers playing basketball could only wait helplessly next to them, shooting at the door frame to relieve their boredom.
Other people in the neighborhood were apparently not used to their overbearing behavior.
"It's hard for the kids to get away from their computers and cell phones to come out and play ball, and they're taking over the place."
Some people fought back in this way.
When it comes to finding a place for square dancing, big moms always come up with all kinds of strange tricks.
Qingdao, Shandong Province, the amahs have used the parking spaces in their neighborhoods as their own square dance venues.
They dance for hours every night on the side of the road, leaving car owners who want to park their cars with no choice but to choose another spot or wait silently on the sidelines.
Some people have shared a video online of the ladies dancing at night, in which a private car keeps honking its horn in the hope that the ladies can get out of the way. But the amazons turned a blind eye, and the car owner could only wait silently for the amazons to finish their dance.
Amazons in Ankang, Shaanxi province, were even more creative, taking over a parking lot.
The grandparents put up a banner at the entrance to the parking lot that read "Do not park here," signed by the Happy Team, a group of square-dancing grandmothers.
This obviously affected the normal operation of the parking lot, and the operator tried to communicate with the amahs and specially arranged other dancing venues for them, but the amahs rejected the arrangement because the place was too remote.
The operator and the car owners who wanted to park had to seek help from the police, who reportedly had to be called out five or six times a month as a result.
The police had to listen to the amazons as they refused to take any action and mediated many times, but still achieved little.
This is not the most exaggerated, Mr. Sun in Hangzhou has posted a complaint that he can hear the sound of square dancing every night, and they dance, is the road in downtown Hangzhou.
Every night at 6:30 p.m., the amazons gather on the road under Mr. Sun's building and turn on the external stereo to dance together.
The road where they dance is located at the junction of Hangzhou Xinhui Road and Changhua Street, close to the intersection, this road is not secluded, there is a building materials market nearby, there are a large number of trucks in and out every day.
The 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. rush hour is supposed to be the peak time for commuting, and it's very dangerous for the amazons to occupy the road.
Passing vehicles dare not mess with the grandparents, but can only slow down and go around, the residents also dare not say anything.
One moncler outlet online store owner in the neighborhood tried to communicate with them, but they came out in force, talking to each other and scaring the moncler outlet store owner.
Another resident complained that her own child will soon take the college entrance exam, the amazons' outbursts every day the child is not interested in reading, she had suggested that the other side to lower the sound, but the amazons said that they will be played even louder in the future.
She had also reflected the matter to the police and traffic police, but no one was willing to go to the police.
From Shaanxi to Hangzhou, the square-dancing amazons sit at the top of the food chain, undaunted by their opponents, whether they are residents or police.
Despite the amazons' creativity in seizing territory, the basketball court is still their favorite.
Every once in a while, people can see news about big moms seizing basketball courts, and these news often spark heated discussions among netizens as well.
Why do big moms have to keep their eyes on the basketball court? It's really a matter of probability.
Data from the 2019 National Stadium Statistics Survey shows that there are 3,544,400 sports venues in China's total ****, including 800,000 table tennis venues and 820,000 national fitness paths, while the number of basketball courts is the largest, with a total of 974,800 across the country, outnumbering badminton, soccer, volleyball and track and field venues combined.
Table tennis courts have tables that take up too much space to provide room for amazons to dance together.
The national fitness paths are actually outdoor fitness equipment in neighborhoods and parks that can't be moved, making them less suitable for square dancing.
Basketball court ground level and covers an area of great, in full compliance with the demand for square dance venue, coupled with a large number of basketball courts, each city can find many of these basketball courts naturally become the first choice of the women to dance in the square, which triggered a public opinion controversy.
The reason for the constant conflict between the ball-playing teenagers and the square-dancing amazons is that, in addition to the amazons' poor quality, they are actually also affected by the current stage of China's national conditions.
Although China has close to 1 million, but after averaging to each person, it is insignificant, China's per capita sports area of 2.08 square meters, in order to exercise properly, the public have to compete with each other for sports space.
But the situation is getting better.
When New China was first founded, the per capita area of sports space was only 0.05 square meters, almost negligible.
By 2003, the figure was a pitiful 1.03 square meters.
Growing from 0.05 to 1.03 and then from 1.03 to 2.08, the problem of insufficient sports space has been easing every year.
Infrastructure is not a quick fix, we should be patient, as the infrastructure continues to improve, similar problems are bound to ease soon.