Happy Chinese New Year!
Sunday saw in the beginning of China’s most important family holiday – the Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival as it’s also known as. And if you heard a loud cacophony of noise in the night sky that evening, it would have been Chinese people letting off a multitude of fireworks (or a worrisome natural occurrence which we’d like to think is pretty unlikely). The legend goes that many years ago a wise village elder advised the Chinese people to scare away a bloodthirsty monster from their defenceless villages with loud noises and bangs like the ones emitted from fireworks. It worked, and so Chinese people have celebrated like this for hundreds of years.