In China, Chinese New Year is actually called "Spring Festival" [春節 / Chūnjié], because it marrks the start of spring on the lunar calendar.
Spring my foot!! Here's a photo of ice on the sewage canal that goes through my neighborhood:
Freezing
suppresses the smell.
And here's a photo of the snow that fell but did not stick on the 22nd, Chinese New Year's Eve:
It
was a decent flurry but it's pretty faint in the photo :( .
It's a tradition to make or buy banners with fortuitous writings on them and put them up around homes and businesses.
And of course, "money" to burn!
And
"cigarettes"!
Making
some ancestors happy and wealthy.
Also, fireworks.
I
told some students that the main reason we buy firecrackers for the
Fourth of July is to blow things---like Lego men, or bananas---up. They were
pretty tickled by that.
Finally, click here for a nice collection of celebration photos from buzzfeed, like this one:
In
Chinese imagery dragon horns look like antlers :D
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