The year of the Ox is here and Chinese people are celebrating their New Year for 10 days. The new year holiday is spent with family and friends home eating dinners. Its much like our Christmas and the most important holiday here in China. I spent my new years eve with a chinese family eating all kinds of great chinese dishes and drinking Moutai, an exclusive 30 year old booze which cost at least 500 euro a bottle!
Each new year there is a traditional TV show that all Chinese watch, the show has dancing, comedy, important people talking etc, kinda like the tradition to watch LINNANJUHLAT back home...
After the show its time for the fireworks! The fireworks are meant to scare the evil monster "zi"away according to ancient traditions. I have to say that the Chinese really kick ass when it comes to fireworks! Beijing was like a warzone last night, firecrackers going off everywhere and the whole sky was lighted up for hours with bright beautiful fireworks!
There is also a tradition in China to give the younger generation Red Pockets filled with money. All relatives give their kids these red pockets and sometimes they can contain thousands of euros. I got my first red pocket this year :)
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