Midnight, February 18, 2007. Impressive spontaneous fireworks by my neighbors as they brought in the Year of the Pig here in Ningbo, China. Hard to believe, but this is NOT a professional or organized display, just ordinary people celebrating.
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Chinese New Year in Shanghai 2011. Fireworks as seen from 15th floor balcony. An upstairs neighbor in the building spent ~$10000 on fireworks and lit them off from downstairs … exploding more or less just a few feet off our balcony. This video was shot at midnight on Chinese New Years Eve with my hand just slightly exposed through an opening in the balcony doors. One spark actually shot between the cracked doors and you can see the camera shake. And I thought they were supposed to be banning fireworks this year in Shanghai???
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Residents and visitors in Haishu District were enjoying a garden party highlighting traditional Chinese culture last Sunday. The party featured a traditional handy craft show and traditional games and performances, adding a lot of fun to the long weekend.

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in chinese suburbian lines usually driver can listen to his music.
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Chinese Tibetan love song Ｓｉｎｇｅｒ：央金兰泽Ｔｉｔｌｅ：遇见你是我的缘”Meeting you is my fate” （Ｔｈａｎｋｓ barryin06 ） barryin06 One sentence in this song is “It was because of fate that we have met, and I keep watching you with my song or my song keeps watching or waiting for you” Enjoy!
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Every year, Chinese New Year in China is celebrated with plenty of fireworks. This video taken in 2009 in Ningbo, China shows all the fireworks that lite up the sky at midnight New Year’s day.
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Wang Shu, a Chinese architect known for his ancient-meets-modern designs, is the latest winner of the 2012

Pritzker Architecture Prize, according to Architectural Record.

He is the first Chinese recipient to receive the award–a bronze medal and $100,000.

Wang, 48, launched his architecture firm, Amateur Architecture Studio, with his wife in 1998 in Hangzhou. He

has a master’s in architecture from the Nanjing Institute of Technology, and has been the head of the department of architecture at the China Academy of Art since 2000.

His most recognizable works include the Ningbo History Museum (2008), Ceramic House in Jinhua (2006), the Xiangshan Campus at the China Academy of Art (2004, 2007), and the Vertical Courtyard Apartments in Hangzhou (2007).

The Pritzker Prize, which is sponsored by The Hyatt Foundation, was founded in 1979 to honor living architects with talent and vision. The award ceremony this year will take place in Beijing on May 25.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wang-shu-winner-of-the-pritzker-architecture-prize-2012-2#ixzz1nfQi1hcp

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This is the view of the insane war-zone fireworks on Chinese New Years Eve 2012 from our balcony in Shanghai China. Jump to 2:35 for the fireworks exploding in our face. You’ve never seen fireworks until you’ve been in China for the CNY.
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The 2012 Chinese Spring festival Event in Tengtou village. ALL FREE– see it here……

About a dozen foreign friends had free transport to and from Tengtou on Friday  20th January 12.30 pm and started at the parking lot behind the church at Tian Yi Square. (348 Disco)

The event, organized by the leaders and  villagers of TengTou village included Free entrance to TengTou village, free Tour, Free Strawberry picking, Free traditional village Spring Festival dinner.

For those which did not participate here some pictures and facts of the special once in a year event “spring festival in Tengtou”:

There have been some cool interactive attractions and nature based programs aimed at natural sustainability. For example… in one part of the village they have a beautiful expansive greenhouse erected housing some rare plants and focusing on new hydroponic growing techniques. While on the other side of the village the visitors could monkeying around with hoists, buckets and a devise I can only describe as an enormous exercise bicycle contraption rigged to a rotating system of buckets. The area is meant to interactively show you how villagers in the past manually transported water using old methods. Definitely not the rice harvesting village life I would expect, but in Tengtou, it is a mixture of old and new.

On top of the sites, which are fun and educational, there are the villagers themselves. Smiles abound and you can really see a connection with the people to the village.

Everywhere you see that people are proud of what they have accomplished, and they should be. Tengtou is an important landmark in Ningbo, and a window into a fading chapter of Chinese life.

Especially in the year of the dragon, it is to mention that Tengtou and Fenghua are considered as the home of the China Dragon Dance. More than 300 Active groups are performing dragon dances in the region. But only a few foreigner had the chance to be part of it.

The event had created great interest by the news media KanKanKan ( NingboTv) Zhejiang Tv, CCTV, and several representatives of the press media did attend and report about the event.

Each one attending had a happy day while learning more about the Chinese past and present.

If you like to know more about TengTou or organize your own trip with a group to TengTou, please contact Eckhard for more details. <Eckhard is the Tourist Ambassador of TengTou village.>

excerpts based on Text by Mathew AsiaEnglishOnline

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