In my experience, Beijing is a great place to spend Spring Festival. People there really know how to celebrate and they prepare in a variety of ways.
Days before Spring Festival, people visit temples to pray for the Spring Festival. They bring gifts of whole roast pigs, ducks,chickens and fruits. The temples are crowded with people and filled with the smell of burning incense. They also buy special foods and ingredients for their family feasts and small orange trees, peach trees and other flowers for their homes.
On Spring Festival Eve, the family gather together for the traditional family meal and everybody stays up all night.
On Spring Festival Day, the streets are really quiet. Almost all the stores are closed. It is time for people to visit their relatives.
On the third day after Spring Festival Day, people go to watch fireworks at Suburb. When fireworks start, the sky is filled with colors, designs, lights and noise.
The smells, sights and sounds of Chinese New Year in Beijing are forever imprinted on my mind.
Days before Spring Festival, people visit temples to pray for the Spring Festival. They bring gifts of whole roast pigs, ducks,chickens and fruits. The temples are crowded with people and filled with the smell of burning incense. They also buy special foods and ingredients for their family feasts and small orange trees, peach trees and other flowers for their homes.
On Spring Festival Eve, the family gather together for the traditional family meal and everybody stays up all night.
On Spring Festival Day, the streets are really quiet. Almost all the stores are closed. It is time for people to visit their relatives.
On the third day after Spring Festival Day, people go to watch fireworks at Suburb. When fireworks start, the sky is filled with colors, designs, lights and noise.
The smells, sights and sounds of Chinese New Year in Beijing are forever imprinted on my mind.
