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Feb
2010

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The Chinese New Year is sucks(except the red pocket money)

On 26, Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | In 日常 | By admin

Pitifully the chinese new year vacation has ended. I sinfully admitted that I did nothing worthy to say in the holiday. Eating, sleeping and playing were all my activities. Personally I hate Chinese New Year though we traditionally receive red pocket money in the festival. I got about thousand and several hundred dollars. Nevertheless I quite dislike the atmosphere of it. Television is full of annoying and boring ads. Traditional songs repeat in every corner of the city all the time. You can’t even have a nice, quiet meal in a restaurant. 

Those songs are extraordinary noisy as if the world is full of chatty teenage girls, damn it. Chinese people like to be bustling. Celebrations of chinese culture mostly are noisy and populous, they are organized for gathering people consciously. Unfortunately I am not a traditional person. Besides, most of these festivals are “activities-required”, you have to take part in it and do some traditional things.  

Before the vacation started, I did plan to write a novel once, but finally I hadn’t actualize my plan. Why? In the vacation I experienced a tour of sensational temptation. It makes me reconsider myself, I was so unfamiliar with myself once. For some reasons I would not talk about it’s details except some of my friends did hear my confession, thanks for hearing my troubles very much. Luckily it seems gone, it was like a fond dream, a piece of paper of my adventures.

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  • john

    Actually the so called “traditional” China New years in Hong Kong is dead, and has turned very untraditional.

    Restaurants, amongst all business activities, used to be take a good rest, so that New Year can be a familiar reunion festival for everybody, just like Christmas in the west. “Smart” Hongkies business has now exploited it into another golden eggs.

    Red pocket money were meant to be given to the younger generation as gesture of good will. Now it is used as a tool to bride off colleagues, or even kids.

    People used to put on their best dress in CNY, now I think people would find me weird if I put on a nice suit.

    I actually liked the CNY the traditional way, but I don fell there are CNY atmosphere at all nowadays, and My TV are stay tuned to Discovery Channel instead of lousy local TV.

    It is hard for people like us to appreciate the CNY holiday, who can use I-phone to do international video calls. But for those who earn a mere 800 RMB, 1000 miles away from home, it would be a total different story.

  • 夢兒

    *sinfully admit sounds like the admitting itself was sinful…

    yea, you know what, just hide at home to dig up the actual traditions behind yet another commericalized festival. visiting is always fun, don’t do anything you don’t want to.

    have you figured it out?