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| This should be good, about 150 ft of firecrackers (over 1200 crakcers) |
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| Six boxes jerry-rigged (or is it jury rigged) into 1 really loud and awesome |
Enjoy this 8 minuted video...
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| Here is the aftermath |
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| This will be left for two days (it supposed to bring luck) |
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| Walking on the "red carpet" will help give you better fortune in the coming year. |
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| Here's everyone that was willing to be awake so early on the first day of the year. |
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| Me and Mr. Zhai, attempting to be the same highet... |
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| Here's Guanlin Square out side of Guanlin Temple, |
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| People buy more fireworks ad just add them to the middle of the square, some times they don;t even need to light them. |
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| There also a huge temple fair |
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| Really it's just like any other fair... just way more crowded |
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| These fruit shaped balloons were pretty cool... |
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| Amelia (Wu Yan) was my guide for the day. She teaches Junior 3 and Er Wai. |
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| Here's one of the amazing paintings in the temple |
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| Here's Guan Yu's headstone, a very famous general in Chinese history |
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| A fancy horse... |
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| It's fancy rider... |
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| Each ribbon represents one person's hopes for the new year. |
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| The Dragon-head cypress... you pray under this tree to have a son who will bring you great fortune. |
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| This is Guan Yu's wife's alter. |
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| Amelia and I tried to go to another public park after Guanlin, but we ran into the rest of Luoyang had the same idea... |
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| Our walk back we passed this poor mad was trying to break his boat out of the frozen river... I'm not really sure how he got there in the first place... |
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| Amelia on the frozen bridge |
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| It is in fact the Year of the Rabbit(s) |
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| Sweet steamed dumplings... aren't the just adorable? |
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| This poor little guy has no clue what he's in for... |
Enjoy the Super Bowl!
Zaijian
Well, the fireworks video was really boring after about the first 30 sec. The reason it brings you luck is that it proves that you're willing to get up early and hold your phone up for 8 min. straight - any person willing to do that is probably a hard worker...
ReplyDeleteThe young lady who accompanied you on your outing is very cute, just thought I'd say that.
As always, I'm jealous of the food you are eating (and I'm sure not appreciating as much as I would) and all of the cool stuff you are doing/seeing. Take care. Nic
I love reading this- it sounds like so much fun. :) We miss you back here! Love Alli and Mike. Also, I agree with Nicci- Amelia is cute :)
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