Fireworks and calligraphy
Over the past couple days there has been the distant splinter and pop of firecrackers, in just another three days it will be Spring Festival.
The spring tradition of writing poetic couplets to be placed around the doorway never disappeared from China, though it was stifled in the 1960s as a superstition. This year is the first time that I’ve seen quite a few street-side calligraphers offering to write a phrase for a couple kuai – before all I could find were those kitschy factory produced ones with glitter, accompanied by pictures of vaguely disturbing fat babies.
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| As for fireworks, there are even chaoji nvsheng Mongolian Yogurt Super Girl Pop Contest ones, should you wish to see Li Yuchun shoot sixty feet in the air and explode. |  |
