I always love to see these typical country houses of Mianzhu, With Chinese new year painting on the wall.
Though some of these houses were hurt badly because of WenChuan earthquake, But most of them were repaired and repainted for the new spring festival.

Century egg(皮蛋 in Chinese) is a kind of tradional Chinese food. It has a lot of interesting English names such as century egg, hundred-year egg,Or thousand-year egg, Because foreigner think it should take long time to compelte the process of transforming.
But we call it pine-patterned egg, Do you notice the pine patterns in the white of the egg?

Chinese Lantern Festival is coming on 9 Feb,2009. It’s the first full moon day of the Chinese lunar year. It’s also considered as the end of the Chinese New year. According to Chinese traditon, We will eat Tangyuan (汤圆 in Chinese, Also called Yuanxiao in English) together with family members on Lantern Festival and Winter Solstice Festival.
Do you love Tangyuan too? And Do you know how to make them?

Are you always feel exciting to post the best of your photos? Are you always eager to share your opinions with your online friends? Are you always glad to give the feedback to your readers? Are you glad to make more blogger friends online?
Yeah, Thanks God I am. And I have so many passionate blogger friends!

2009 MianZhu New Year painting festival is opened during new spring festival. So you can find some New year painting markets at MianZhu. Influenced by WenChuan earthquake, The market seems not busy as I hope. But it better for strolling around.

I visited MianZhu the day before yesterday.
There were 11,117 people died & 80% houses collapsed at Mianzhu because of 512 WenChuan Earthquake. More than half a million people there lost their homes, Including my parents and neighbors.
Let’s see how they celebrate their first new spring festival after earthquake at their temporary home. SiChuan people are so tough and optimistic.

Mount Emei(峨眉山 in Chinese) locates at Sichuan province of Western China. It’s one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China, And was nominated as the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
I almost forgot all the details about my Mount Emei tour many years ago. But when my father gave me this cup of green tea, I recognized it at once: It’s “ZhuYeQing” (竹叶青 in Chinese)!

It’s still cold, But According to Chinese traditional calendar, spring is coming.
My father took these photos in some parks of Chengdu. Yeah, They do not belong to this cold season, But they come ahead of schedule to inform us a colorful spring is coming after a happy New Spring Festival.

According to Chinese Tradition, All parents will prepare new clothes for their children before the Chinese New Year’s Eve. So I prepared a typical Chinese style new colthes for my doggie Leo, and took these photos before I left home.
Yeah, Leo loves New Spring Festival, He can have new clothes and new toys. So he hope you have a happy happy new year too!

Chinese tradition is somewhat complex. Several food exhibitions will open to celebrate the new spring Festival in Chengdu. Yeah, People here love tea and noshs more than flowers.
ChengDu is a city very different from GuangZhou. I love Chengdu, But I miss Guangzhou’s Spring Festival Flower Market too! There are some pictures I took last year, You can see how people enjoy flower market at GuangZhou.

Today, Chinese traditional things are so popular that many cities have old-style streets. You can find some traditional Chinese gadgets and traditional food there. Jinli is one of old-style streets in Chengdu, SiChuan.
But I always think all these old-style streets are too similar, They should have more local color to attract the tourists.

John Woo’s new movie “Red Cliff “(赤壁 in Chinese ) is very hot these days. That’s a story about an important campaign in Three Kingdoms (三国) period.
I don’t know how do you think about Woo’s Three Kingdoms story, But I know many Chinese people are unsatisfied with this movie, Because they know the story of Three Kingdoms better than John Woo.