At Songyue Lake in Wulian County, Rizhao City, ping-pong spent the weekend outdoors. The Shandong Ping-Pong Culture-Tourism Carnival put the national sport on the water and invited anyone to pick up a paddle.

Olympic champion Chen Meng was there. So were former China basketball player Gong Xiaobin, actor Feng Xiaotong, and the families who treated the shoreline in east China's Shandong Province as a court.

A few kilometers away, city teams were playing the Ping-Pong Super League at the sports center. Same county, two settings: a hall for the points, a lake for everyone else.