Christmas, Chinese style

[Tripatini]

A mere one percent of Chinese profess Christianity, but as in Japan and indeed various other countries of non-Christian Asia, the festive trappings of Yuletide have been widely embraced in China, though for the time being mostly still in Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Guangdong, of course Hong Kong and Macau, with their longtime tenures under Great Britain and Portugal, as well as other large cities. This time of year is the time of Sheng Dan Jie.

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