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What is New
Years like in China?
Times this
video by ten hours.
Last night,
China ushered in the year of the Snake. The celebration started around dusk and
fireworks went off non-stop til about 3 am, purchased at stands like this
At six, the firecrackers began. It is customary for the Chinese to set
off some firecrackers at their doorstep to keep away evil spirits.
And, set
off a few car alarms.
It’s also a
day for everyone to dress up in red and black and hang out at Green Lake Park.
I didn’t dare enter the labyrinth of people, vendors and gardens. Instead, I
watched the human parade from the outside.
Check out
this elderly woman’s shoes. Ouch!
Kids would try
their luck hooking a gold fish in the Kunming’s City Center. Good luck for the kid, bad luck for the fish.
Other
Chinese New Year customs include spreading pine needles on your floor to
promise a year of evergreen, whatever that means. Also, if you were born in the year of the Snake,
you’re supposed to wear red underwear all year long.
Either it
will give you good luck or a very bad rash.
Others
would touch the Good Luck “Fu” sign hanging on the city center’s doorway.
The
Tibetans have a tradition of making jiaozi (homemade dumplings) and hiding a
nugget of cow dung in one of them.
If you find
it, it’s supposed to mean good luck.
If that’s
what the lucky guy gets, I’d don’t want to know what’s in the rest.