Today is Chinese new year's day. The year of the rat has begun!
And we were of course in the middle of it!
It started after lunch when we went to Longtan New Year temple fair (we being Claudia, her brother, his girlfriend, Agnes, Thomas - two newly arrived infoyear attendees).
Many Chinese people, many red new year decorations, many foodstands and other things you could buy at the new year's market. Some things you could buy there resembled what we buy for carneval like coloured
After having had sushi for dinner together, we went to Houhai lake and celebrated new year there. Houhai lake is a scenic spot with many hutongs and a nice frozen lake... and the firework there was gigantic! It's not that you start a firework at 12 at night here in China, but they started all the day from 5 pm and now, at 1 at night local time they still go on.
My colleagues said it usually doesn't stop before 5am in the morning the next day!
The firework was bigger than all the fireworks I've seen so far in my lifetime! Unfortunately taking pictures of a firework is difficult, but I attach some photos of the market this afternoon.
See you! Happy new Chinese year to all of us!
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