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About Christmas in 3 continents

One thing is certain: this case happens often to nomads flying worldwide on airways home from Shanghai / China (PRC) or back again to the metropolitan city to land on Pudong’s airport PVG.

Already travelled to 175+ cities worldwide, tourists from Amsterdam-Schiphol, Dubai or Shanghai may ask you in then on the Bund during these busy days:
„How do Chinese people – some of them live overseas – do celebrate their Christmas feast / party?”

Firstly, then you have to think deeply, please!

How to explain the 1+X question(s)? These will never be easy to answer correctly…

Generally spoken you have to admit: the Christmas feast has never officially existed before in PRC.

But how could it come now into fashion there, too?

What makes Christmas a new fashion or trend?

If we regard these (shopping) days only as a fashionable event, we might see it only with the eyes of a marketing director, whose department who tend to trigger the bonuses paid at yearend.

So, hoping to attract more than 200.000+ and more Germans living in metropolitan cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen or Hong Kong SAR, the new consumption worlds go really crazy: buying luxury cars, etc.

This year however, the similar holiday season in the former traditional China follows quickly the German feasts “Weihnachten” and “Sylvester”; as a surprise, it is also quite close to the traditions in Africa as well.

Why Africa?

Networking friends there say: We sing Christmas carols and dramatize place in African churches. Furthermore, many feasts and family reunions are held, similar to new Chinese citizens living and working in an almost forgotten continent: Africa, we go, top!
Opposite to the European thoughts, Chinese TV stations focus on the cultural events such as frequently visited churches, filled with more religious believers than these may offer space to – queuing up, without public viewing.

Yoga Thoughts…

The Christians are told by their priests how they could go on the healthy good old traditional ways. They are given fresh ideas following a visionary path for the coming years. Another yoga trip with drum music…

Finally many festivals are held on the December 31, celebrating gospel music in cities like Nairobi (NBO) / located in Kenya.

There, one week later everybody goes back happy to work with a fresh and creative mentality to overcome the global crises telling: Happy New Year…

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Celebrating Xmas in...

Basar in San Francisco (SFO)

Shanghai’s Century Park Events postponed

The report about Shanghai’s postponed international music festival and the real story about it starts here…

Arriving back home in their rooms, especially due to the postponed international music festival in the famous Century Park, some players of the band presented their know-how songs to the public in their booked hotel rooms.

For your better understanding you might understand well the slight differences between music and musics… or hammering like the following scenery…

However, if the song ends several times after a few seconds accompanied by the hammering of drum sticks click, one, two, three, four, then you can imagine the the sound that should not be shown on public music video channels, neither in China nor in the Western world. Useless to say, that the bands confirmed to have no manager… This was fresh men’s music made in in the mood of a well known alcoholism trend in modern China.

To be continued… this little report is part of the introduction of
‘sleepless in Shanghai’… Sleep seems not to be a human right. Being asked if the music could stop eventually long time ago after midnight the tricky answer was: is there a problem? The problem has now the hotel management which better had refused bookings…
Sorry, we are already fully booked out due to the National holidays. I am so sorry…