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ACB's Photo album: Spring Festival Lantern
posted Sunday, 18 September 2005
In my travels around China I’ve seen a lot of different Chinese
decorations for a lot of different festival, but for some reason I
found this one to be particularly striking.
This is a Spring Festival Lantern used to mark the turning of the Chinese New Year that I came across in a small town. The character underneath is Zhu4, meaning ‘to express good wishes’.
What was particularly striking about the scene was that because the land behind the lantern drops away quite dramatically, and because it was taken on a freezing cold foggy day that obscured everything in the distance, you got the impression that the lantern was just hanging there in mid air.
It is being able to find view like this that really make living in China worth while and which remind me that being a tourist in somewhere as vast as China is little better than staying in your on home and watching somebody else’s holiday movies. To see China, you have to live China.
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