It’s May 1st – International Labour Day, no less. Up the workers and all that. And the world’s largest communist country* celebrates in true socialist style. By giving the middle classes the day off while all the actual working class have to go to work as normal. The street sweepers are still sweeping streets, the [...]
I’m not even going to comment on this piece of chaos I just received as a text message on my phone, other than to say that Wednesday next week is Qing Ming Festival. This means “Clear and Bright” and is an ancestor worship event. I detailed in a previous post the mind games they play [...]
In celebration of the Lantern Festival, which marks the end of the Spring Festival, Liuzhou will be holding what they are describing as their first Lantern Festival Temple Fair. This will start tomorrow and last until Tuesday 7th. Monday 6th is the actual Lantern Festival Day, the 15th day of the new year and a [...]
As part of the Chinese New Year celebrations next week, Liuzhou will be holding its usual fireworks display. Unusually, they are doing this on New Year’s Day (Monday 23rd) rather than a couple of days later as in the past. There will be five firework launch sites along the south riverside and on and around [...]
Liuzhou city is wishing us a Happy Spring Festival (which starts on Monday with the Chinese New Year and runs till February 6th with the Lantern Festival marking the end). Ever mindful of the need in these harsh economic times to preserve funds for more banquets, the authorities have gone in for a bit of [...]
What else is there to do in such a miserable (weather-wise) holiday as this New Year has been, than to plan for the next holiday? So here is a list of holidays for 2012. As usual, they play around with the calendar and pretend that people have more days off than they really have, then [...]
We are used to people jumping off the river’s many bridges here in Liuzhou. The people involved usually claim that they are trying to end it all. But I like that they leave themselves a get out clause. They can either swim to safety having made the dramatic statement or, chances are, they will be [...]
Liuzhou’s International Water Carnival got off to – well, a wet start. The skies opened and we had torrential rain, but the show must go on and apparently on it went. I sensibly stayed home during the parade, but here a handful of pictures I have purloined from the local media. I did drag myself [...]
On Tuesday. Liuzhou held a press conference to announce the “Liuzhou International Water Carnival” to be held during the National Day holiday (1st-5th October). Typically, they didn’t hold this in Liuzhou, but down the road in Nanning. The “carnival” seems to be little more than a not very new name for the water sports meeting [...]
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