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Happy Chinese New Year!
Updated: 2015-03-05 15:22
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Provided by Judy Zhu |
As to us adults, we are more busy during the Gala show: chatting with friends on WeChat app for a while, watching the programs for a while, and shaking our mobiles from time to time to win all kinds of red packets (Hongbao)! I’m wondering who the genius is to invent the idea of virtual Hongbao! Such a huge business! The next day it was reported that WeChat users shook their phones a collective 11 billion times during the five-hour show (Chinese New Year gala), in 185 countries all over the world. Tencent said RMB 1 billion was exchanged via virtual hongbao on Chinese New Year’s Eve, though it didn’t give overall figures for the holiday period. Big data show us how strong China is today.
It seems to me all the world is celebrating Chinese New Year with us. We went to Paris on the second day of the new year with our Chinese friends to have a short trip there. In Paris, local people, Chinese and French, celebrated the lunar New Year with a parade, paper lanterns and dragon and lion dancing down the street. That's a really colourful event. At the same time, in North America, some of my friends had their new year celebration at Disneyland in California, because it offered a special program for guests to enjoy “time-honored traditions, festivities and ceremonies of this multi-cultural holiday”.
Golden time flies. We are now all back to work though the festival traditionally starts on the first day of the month and continues until the 15th. As our boss mentioned, "To me this seems like a very long celebration and I hope that it could be cut slightly short this time…". You see, he is a humorous and generous boss indeed.
Again, happy Chinese New Year to all!
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Provided by Judy Zhu |
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