Tag: yu yuan
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Ancient Tradition and Pretty Lanterns~ Shanghai
Lanterns adorned with ancient poems, lights in the sky, colorful decorations, bright smiles, ever-growing crowds; this is the lantern festival in Shanghai’s Yu Gardens. Every year I keep going back simply to be with the joy of this special happening, celebrating the start of Chinese spring under a big full moon. How dull would life…
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Day Twenty Six, February 17, 2011
Today the Chinese New Year festivities come to an end with a big boom! It is the Lantern Festival’s main celebration. I went to Yu Yuan (Yu Gardens) in Puxi to witness the festivities and now as I write this, the sky is on fire with millions of fireworks that are going off all over…
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Day Eight, January 30, 2011
Today I was out most of the day and evening in the freezing streets of Shanghai with my camera. In the evening my friend Sabrina joined me at Yu Gardens to photograph the lanterns and the massive decorations that are being prepared for the Chinese New Year on February 3rd. After a zillion photos, this…