Imagine that you could roll the event of Christmas and New Year into one night at home and multiply it by 70 times. That is Spring Festival Eve here in China. They all have the 7-10 days official holiday beginning on the lunar new year. Incidentally it was on Australia day this year. But people start to travel back to their hometowns up to 2 weeks before and I understand now why that is necessary. Simply it is impossible to move that many people back home in only a few days before the festival.
To give you an example the larger cities Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai have been processing 200,000 people per DAY on trains for the times leading up to Spring Festival eve. Amazing.
Here in Shaoxing there have been the most people on the street not from the city area I have seen since the Olympic torch day. A few pics here for you. You can see in the pics the tables of candy and special treats in the background of the market store. Oh the girls were there to promote the store and wanted to be photographed. The street pic you can see the festival decorations.
Also included a short video of the same street and the people. Many many people around the place who must be from outside the city, coming to get their festival goodies.
And it is a tradition here to have fireworks on Spring festival. So we have been treated to that continuously since the evening of the 25th. So here is the video.
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