Nanning on the day of Spring festival, the first day of the Chinese lunar year. We were a bit disappointed by spring festival, people just seemed to want to shop and all the shops had sales on. The streets were packed but there didn't seemed to be much of a celebratory atmosphere, just crowds of people fighting their way through shops and markets on a crazy bargain hunting expedition. The fireworks in the eveing were quite impressive and went on pretty much all night but after a few days of being kept awake by fireworks or of jumping out of your skin at a firecracker some four year old had let off next to you in the street, the novelty seemed to wear off. People had no idea about fire safety, apparently every year hundreds are maimed or killed from misuse of fireworks but this doesn't seem to deter people.
# posted by Unknown @ 4:59 pm
Nanning on the day of Spring festival, the first day of the Chinese lunar year. We were a bit disappointed by spring festival, people just seemed to want to shop and all the shops had sales on. The streets were packed but there didn't seemed to be much of a celebratory atmosphere, just crowds of people fighting their way through shops and markets on a crazy bargain hunting expedition. The fireworks in the eveing were quite impressive and went on pretty much all night but after a few days of being kept awake by fireworks or of jumping out of your skin at a firecracker some four year old had let off next to you in the street, the novelty seemed to wear off. People had no idea about fire safety, apparently every year hundreds are maimed or killed from misuse of fireworks but this doesn't seem to deter people.
