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Square dance team turns down the volume

①Putting on their headphonesand dancing to the music pounding in their ears, some Shanghai residents are making square dancing less disruptive.

②Square dancing, or guangchangwu, has been a popular pastime among middle-aged and elderly Chinese for decades. But it has long been controversial, because the music blaring from loudspeakers as they strut their dance moves in public can prove an annoyance.

③A recent video showing people from Anting town, in Shanghai's Jiading district, square dancing to music only they could hear went viral online, with many netizens calling for the practice to be implemented nationwide.

④"This new way of square dancing allows the dancers to carry out their hobby without bothering their neighbors," said Dou Xiangxin , the leader of the 100-member dance group.

⑤Dou said the loud music sometimes caused quarrels and even fights between dancers and nearby residents.

⑥Many netizens have expressed their support for the new practice. In the past two weeks, leaders of square dancing teams from other Shanghai districts, including Fengxian, Minhang and Huangpu, and other provinces have come to observe it, Dou said.

⑦However, others have questioned whether dancing in such a manner will diminish the charm of square dancing, with one comment on the Sina Weibo social media platform reading "it may be kind of spooky when passing by the silent group dancing, especially at night".