Fireworks!!

Well do you know why Chinese people blow lots of fireworks in their New Year? I’ll tell you why! It’s because they think blowing fireworks will hunt the evil spirits, and that’s why they do it in front of their houses or their shops or anywhere they own! But then nowadays not everybody believes in that, I mean the young fellas don’t really believe in that but they’re doing it because it’s part of their traditions! Sometimes you can find a very young kid, like 3 or 4 years old trying to blow this tiny little firework and then he doesn’t get scared!!! I mean personally I freak out every time one of these things blow few miles away from me!! And then there are the other kind of people, the very old man or woman. I mean seriously!!! Are you trying to get yourself a heart attacks or something?! You can see them with their grand grand children teaching them how to blow fireworks and having fun hearing those blowing sounds for hours!!

Well I remember my first time to assist to a Chinese New Year in 2007, I was so annoyed and I couldn’t sleep! And when I went out to eat I didn’t find an open restaurant and then I was super scared because of those tiny little kids blowing those small fireworks under my feet!!! I really hated myself those days! And then even the bank was closed for few days and I had a lot of problems because I didn’t know that all of that would happen just because it’s the New Year and Spring Festival!!

But then my second time in China in 2009 I really enjoyed being there! I even blew fireworks and all of my friends did! Even the big beautiful fireworks! It was snowing and with the fireworks in the sky it was just amazing! We cooked and then we went out at night and we saw big fireworks shows in our way to the place we’re going and then everywhere was red because of those red fireworks that leave kind of red powder in the floor after blowing it!

Then my third time in 2010, I kind of got used to it so it was okay and I had fun with friends went to eat Chinese and then went out and like always enjoyed the fireworks show and had fun until the morning! But this time the only bad thing that happened is that I had to wait for a taxi, to walk and stand in the snow for more than half an hour…!! And when I finally surrendered and said well I’m going home there was a taxi coming on the way!

Oh yeah! There’s something I didn’t explain, that nobody is in the streets I mean the fact that the streets are kind of empty the day of the New Year! Actually, it’s just because Chinese families celebrate the New Year together so they’d go to visit each other and it’s kind of a family day and they eat together, they cook some traditional food and they have fun on a family reunion!!

So, if you like fireworks or if you want to see the biggest fireworks ever, just go to China and make sure to be on top of the highest building in the city in the New Year’s Eve so you can see the most beautiful fireworks show ever!!