Plan your Beijing trip during spring festival? Visiting a temple fair is a must. For each spring festival, I’d like to visit one temple fair to feel and touch the new year. My pick this year is to visit the temple fair inside Chaoyang Park since I’ve heard a lot about this special temple fair…
With the deafening blasts of fireworks and firecrackers all surrounding me, here comes the Chinese new year 2012, the year of dragon. China has a long tradition of playing firecrakers and fireworks in a hope to wipe off the bad luck from the past year and ushers in good fortune and prosperity in the new…
In two days we’ll say goodbye to the rabbit year of 2011 and enter the dragon year of 2012 which starts from Jan 23, 2012. Before turning to the new page to write our new history, we at tour-beijing.com look back at the passing year of 2011 with a light heart. The year 2011 fell into a dormant…
If you plan a Beijing tour during the Chinese new year, you would have an opportunity to see how Chinese people spend their new year. Chinese new year or Spring Festival gives Chinese people a week-long holiday, this year from Jan 22, the new year’s eve to Jan 29, 2012. This Chinese new year is coming…
The year 2011 has been the 6th successive year since the 12-year ban on the setting off of firecrackers in Beijing was lifted in 2006 a result of public appeal to be more observant of traditional holiday customs. There are of course pros and cons of setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year. Firecrackers and fireworks…
Today is Feb 02, 2011, one day before the Chinese new year 2011 starts. As usual, this morning I pass over the flyover at 8:00am on my way to office since I’m on duty today. I’m not surprised to find the traffic below is empty due to most of the local residents stay at…
There are several ways to prepare for the coming Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). One is room or office decorations with door couplets, paper-cuts for windows and hanging charms. This morning we go to the nearest market to buy some Chinese new year auspicious things for office decorations. Every year we stick to…
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