Visitors browse the photos on display at an exhibition on folk sports on Sunday, August 3, 2008. [Photo:jinghua.cn]

An exhibition featuring photographs of folk sports opened in Beijing on Sunday, the Beijing Times reported.

The exhibition displays over 40 pieces by four brothers, Wang Wenquan, Wang Wenbo, Wang Wenlan and Wang Wenyang.

Through the various sports that citizens play in their everyday lives, the exhibition aims to show how actively ordinary people have participated in sports.

Wang Wenlan, one of the photographers and the deputy president of the China Photographers Association, said through the exhibition, the artists want people from home and abroad to see that Chinese people have incorporated the optimism and fortitude that sports engenders into daily life.

(CRI August 4, 2008)