At my workplace they removed the Christmas decoration on the 26th of December. The rest of Singapore followed within the next days and I soon understood why everyone was in such a hurry to get rid of everything. It was on the 1st of January when I saw the first decorations for CHINESE NEW YEAR. Just to give you an impression of how important this is over here, CNY starts on February 10th. They are worse than the westerners with the Christmas decoration!! Also I learned, that they celebrate this "new year" over the period of three days!! I have not had the chance to photograph many decorative elements yet, but you might get an idea just by looking at my local supermarket:
Don't get fooled by the snowflakes hanging from the ceiling, they yous indicate that that is the frozen section (winter was yesterday, people, now that is all over!). As you can see there are a lot of red ornaments as this is the tipical CNY color as well as gold. And don't think that the triangular boxes on the freezers are Christmas trees! They are CNY baskets! (Naturally)
Meanwhile they were playing chinese music in the background all of the time! :)
By the way, apparently even KitKat celebrates this occasion:
Looking forward to this festivity as well (although considering how much time there is left I may have to look forward for a while...). Good night!
Pero bueno! las cestas de año nuevo chino son como las nuestras de navidad, incluso tienen forma de jamón!
ReplyDeletejaja, yo tambien pense lo de la forma de jamon xD wie ist das mit der chinesischen Musik? yo me la imagino asi: ping-jing, wo, she, irg, kueh :P pues si los colores de cny son rojo y oro poco tienen que cambiar de la Weihnachtsdeko, ah no, que esa es rosa :P (verwirrte chinos...)
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