Hello Everyone!!!
Welcome to our blog, where we will discuss all about China
for our preparation for our trip. =) We are Mena and Tia two students from
Dubai endeavoring on our new adventure for a “trip across the world” sort of
speak. Tia is not a big backpack girl and highly accident prone, and I Mena
don’t like to live on the streets or not have my shower, thus we scrapped up
all our money that we earned from various under paid jobs and decided to travel
with the support of Hunters Tourism Firm (a Chinese firm means local support) that provides all that we need such as visa,
medical insurance, and concierge service for a fair fee…and no headache which
is great for lazy people like us XD
This
week in our YouTube videos we looked into the various festivals that China
holds. To Tia’s amazement they hold 24 festivals some of which are the Plum
Blossom Festival held in February which
shows off the plum blossom garden and no surprise that under such a sweet smell
and beauty people get married.
The next festival that we would love to see however might
not get the chance is the Longqine Gorge Ice and Snow Festival. For people that
are stuck in Mordor for 10 out of 12 months anything that reminds us of nature
and seasons especially winter makes us sway like a crazy fan girl for her idol.
Basically this festival shows off ice sculpture of different shapes, people,
animals including mythological creatures such as dragons- RAAAAAWWWR
The
third of many festivals is the famous Lantern Festival- no matter who you are
there is a high possibility that you have watched either Mulan or Rapunzel or
maybe even both. Even though Rapunzel isn’t Chinese-yes we know, there is still
a good scene of the lantern festival….and from our source from the Hunter
Tourism it’s even more beautiful than that of the cartoon. Now that is when
people should be getting married. During
the festival people perform the lion dance which is believed to scare off evil
spirits and warm their hearts and bellies with delicious Yuanxia which is soup
that is sweet stuffed dumplings made with glutinous rice flour-I know sound
wired but look at how it looks….can you say YAMMMY
The Legend of the Lantern Festival
Long ago monsters inhabited our world, in order to survive
people killed the beasts (Obviously man) however one day a bird from heaven got
lost and came to our sinful world, one of the hunters thought the bird was one
of the monsters and killed it. Heavens emperor got angry for killing its pet
and ordered his soldiers to burn this petty world. The daughter of the powerful
emperor secretly came down to our world to warn the humans. In order to survive people decided to fool
the heavens emperor by lighting up the sky with lanterns and fireworks for
three days between 14-16th of Feb.
On the 15th the emperor looked down and saw the sky bright
red with yells and screams that he thought were of torture and was satisfied
with his punishment.
