It's been cold and rainy the last few days and the mist is so think you can hardly see anything. Took some pictures from my office of the Jin Mao tower and World Finance Tower (570 m tall) but most of them are in mist...On sunny days I love! the view from the office. Next week should be sunny and 10-15 degrees. Hope you guys are fine back home even though it's -20...I had my share of cold up in Manzhouli -30!
Misty...
Today is the official "end of spring festival day" called LANTERN FESTIVAL. One part of the Lantern Festival is MORE firecrackers, fireworks and other stuff you can blow up. The whole evening has sounded like a war-zone with stuff blowing up in every corner. People were setting off a lot of things on my yard, just look at the ground, full of empty firecracker packages, as if the air quality wasn't bad already?
Look at all the empty boxes!!
The second part of the Lantern Festivalare the "Yuanxiao=Round evening" which are small dumpling balls with various stuff in them. The outside is made out of rice and the filling varies, there are the sweet ones and the salty ones. The Yuanxiao are made differently depending on which part of China you are (fried, boiled etc) in and WHY are they round? The roundness symbolizes family unity, happiness and completeness, how sweet isn't that!
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