Coo the music, pigeons set city's tone
- Posted on September 29, 2026
- By The China Daily
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Coo the music, pigeons set city's tone
In his 1934 essay Autumn in Peiping, writer Yu Dafu described sitting in a courtyard on an autumn morning, looking up at the blue sky and hearing "the sound of domesticated pigeons flying overhead" — part of the unhurried, peaceful rhythm of everyday life in Beijing.