On a sunny weekend, a tall and thin foreigner is leading people to practice taichi by the Qiantang River.

Massimo, from Italy, moved to Hangzhou in 2013 because of his love for Chinese culture, and is now a doctoral student at Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University.

He has been interested in Chinese culture since he was a child. Influenced by Chinese kungfu movies starred by Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Massimo also learned some Chinese Kungfu with Chinese masters in Italy.

After going to college, Massimo majored in traditional Chinese medicine and grabbed an opportunity to study in China.

"The only problem of Chinese culture is that it is vast as ocean and one life is not enough to learn," he said.