Ni hao! Happy New Year!! Well happy Chinese New Year anyways!! It’s been a crazy last week or so as the China has started the year of the tiger with a bang!! Literally...fireworks have been going off for the last week at all hours of the day.
We spent the New Year’s night in Taiyuan and got to celebrate the holiday Chinese style. In China fireworks shows are not provided by the city government, rather you provide it for yourselves. At first, I thought this would mean some sparklers and maybe some bottle rockets...but it turned out I was wrong. It was almost like 20 mini Disneyland shows all going off at once. When the clock struck midnight (and even before it stuck midnight really), it seemed as if everyone in the city of Taiyuan was celebrating together.
Everyone was incredibly nice, and seemed extremely happy to have foreigners celebrating their biggest holiday with them. The hotel staff (who set off part of the ridiculous firework display you are going to see) brought us a huge box of firecrackers and told us to “play with them.”
Now, I tried to figure out how to describe how deafening the sound was as you stood in the streets of Taiuyuan, or how amazing it was to see firecracker after firecracker light up the sky, but I think I will just have to show you.
Enjoy! And Happy Chinese New Year!!
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