In China, Lyon

In February 2005. My first one in exotic Chinese Spring Festival. A very memorable day. I took some snapshots and write down, to give himself a rare occasion. Also look for friends, share my happiness.

Monday, 29.

5 p.m., after six hours of the car, from the Eastern Mediterranean side warm Barcelona back to Lyon, as if returned home feeling. Cold air also felt very cordial. Off the dust and tiring journey, back to the lab, can hardly wait to Ioana, Christophe and Egido report my surprise trip. Wait until the night eight, in accordance with the plan before, with christophe and joyce three people to go to a Chinese restaurant in advance to eat a big meal to celebrate new year, many people fear of tomorrow. It's my treat. I always thank chrisotphe gave the chance to Lyon to at this time, feel how he get enough Xie. Three individuals called the three meals, a Yangzhou fried rice (French wrote it is fried rice), a beef Bowl, a noodle soup flavor of Viet Nam. (Lyon's Chinatown is very small, just a few streets. Here Chinese restaurant seems almost no authentic boss of China, Viet Nam, or Thailand. I haven't seen anything of the kind of Beijing roast duck dishes in the hotel room. The food at all) up to the full set of a table that looked good. The three of us together to eat. France people had not used it, but christophe also gradually got used to us this way. In fact it is so good, well, everyone together to eat, you can try a few more. Three people eat hilarious. More pleased of boss told us that Cantonese. They are overseas, Viet Nam's teenage years here. Old Maid of honor very kind to let us feel very cordial, more the feeling of eating Mission Festival banquet focus on.

Tuesday, 30.

Christophe home for lunch in the lunch, pizza and then to see a CCTV Spring Festival Gala. See the three essays, Wang Hong their decoration and hit the wall, one Pan Changjiang several Olympic training camp, and one I really like the new Secretary for his wife. Son of a thought to the father of a new year happy, however, to make matters worse for the two lovers. I am very hard to explain why I laugh christophe so badly. Laugh, cannot help but wonder if the intergenerational communication if smooth point that much better. Subsequently see a deaf in thousands of hand Buddha's dance, the better. They say "love in sign language is our common language," and my tears out. Everything starts from love. Joyce and I together with deaf teachers together with lively. I now remember: love--is--we--common-language. Tell joyce the party often this educational program is very heavy. Also told her that for the past ten years, our family of each new year's Eve are all watching this Gala, today in this alien also be immediately see this scene, I have great significance. Have to say. Mother they haven't even in Singapore I see early and wait to see the video broadcast at two in the morning. They've got to admire my luck. Thanks christophe timely installation of cable TV.

New year's Eve, with christophe and joyce had a mission we all do, that a special Festival banquet focus on.

I do a new cheese pork fried rice, mixed vegetable fried rice, joyce do honey chicken wings, rice syrup. We all ate very amicably. I told christophe tangyuan mean round round, he and joyce is in reunion, I share their happiness. With this determination, I wonder if the listener interested. He has been a very busy and not know joyce have complained about. The little girl is very simple, but very caring, I really like her, I hope can really hurt her christophe, hope they can get a good result.

Friday, the third day.

Christophe and joyce at home on a Chinese new year party. Make them more than 20 friends. I returned home at five in the afternoon, as planned I want to contribute dishes – a bowl of rice, a Yangzhou fried rice, taro sago pudding. Wok, very simple, almost not a thing. So also with fried. Get a good two and a half hours. Christophe first to get a big box meal away. I had to dress made of sweet rice cooker, there is a box of fried rice, umbrella, walked half an hour to catch the party. Good lively party. Joyce has done a full table of food, some sliced chicken, fried eggs, tomato, sweet and sour pork ribs, pot, there are two scene: fried vermicelli, fried rice, fried prawns with her yesterday, pinch of sanxi glutinous, christophe do a banana nut cake, a friend of ginger cake, plus my fried rice, sugar and water. Wow, say a hearty! christophe friends were straight roundly praised, christophe found a good girlfriend, this cooking discussion through was so successful that they want to push as married christophe joyce. The night before they make a cake, packing House, always get at two in the morning. Last night the last group of friends go say is a bit more. Today I went to their House, to see everything is neatly packed. Xiaoliangkou mix very well.

France at home dinner is very often.

General started very late, gradually to around talent, till the early morning of two points. We are very casual, no formal ceremonies and rituals. We drink wine, twos and threes get together to talk, eat, so always did and chat. Yesterday's Party was a pattern of the United Nations, France, China (Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Japan, Sweden, Romania, Italy, Spain. Most of the French, we encountered several French not enough, it use English. France people speak English and some still somewhat exhausting. Watch them as we found gut scrapingBelly to find words, often find it very interesting. The most interesting I like Japan tall boy conversation. His English is almost equal to zero, just started to learn French, my French Japanese is almost zero. The two of us than hand draw foot, with the poor is both understand words, English, French, Japanese, what can be used on. (Here it for a while, I really appreciate the language barrier of inconvenient. In the dormitory to clean clean because it can't understand English, I told her you can speak with duck and chicken. On one occasion, had a half-day, didn't understand my where garbage can. But it'd make my pidgin's formation was experience, often remind myself that these conversations in a simplified syntax. But we still can) talk for half a day. Know that he is to come to France in France cuisine, now to learn French. We also chat Japan's haiku, he can now. There is also the Hayao Miyazaki's animation Japan (he should be can't write "Jun", that is too complex, and interesting, is it his Japanese nor good?). In fact, I have not read, just listen to christophe recently went out. The go and see.

On Saturday.

Monday dinner after the Chinese Association of Office know today here in the afternoon a lion dance performances. Our three said OK go. Two points over the show began. In fact, the lion dance team to do business with restaurants and shops, ask for a good start in the new year. Some street in Chinatown almost ten is ready, the door hanging long string, some have Fireworks, let the lion climbing to get the lettuce. Boom--Qiang, pod-Qiang, Qi Gong-. Good familiar festive sounds, hilarious scenes. The street is full of places around the crowd, France, Europe, China, Viet Nam, all sorts of people, men, women and children. The children sat in dad's shoulders. Camcorders, digital cameras, long working distance of large lens professional camera – we see a Mr. back three cameras, standing on a ladder to capture. When fireworks lit, clapped crackling snapped, smoke rises and scattered, air filled with the smell of gunpowder, taking a bite, I felt very fragrant and delicious. Haven't smelled the smell. Fireworks burn to Fireworks, a large artillery regiment of loud, Oh, Wow, the crowd cheers and applause. In the joyous sound of cymbals, clapped crackling sound of firecrackers, snapped up ended, full of red paper, gunpowder, gorgeous, old and new year, new year sent to, the spring has come. Tears Gush up, with the eyes, feel that this moment is very beautiful, very moved, life is worth it, full of hope.

Lion dance out of a team, to the next House.

The crowd also follow the impulses. Naughty boys, children, burning machine, or incense, pocket with one bulk firecrackers, see who's interesting, lit a, going in a cast, and there's one saw a red things fly around, Oh, cover with ears can quickly to hide places next to hide. The crowd is constantly out of a well, and then with a bang, then is a burst of laughter, one after another. The children are tired of it.

We found a porch, standing in the solidity, the opposite is a restaurant, called kingsoft Pavilion, its door hanging of firecrackers up, four long, straight onto the ground, home of lettuce only a tree, they had very nice three trees.

We watched the children of hoaxes, always anticipating your presence there also be flying a red small bombs, ready to cover the ears. When standing up a bit wearing wearing a suit of old hands holding a digital video camera. He just stood up, lift up the machine, and then we talk. Probably see me with joyce speak Cantonese. He asked "do you come from Hong Kong?" we say yes, say there is good, really good. He said the district well here, so that they play. He told us the opposite House is Chinshan Pavilion is his. He is the overseas Chinese, here more than ten years. The opposite of those in throwing a firecracker play boy is his son, he has three sons and four daughters. 75 years of fleeing to Cambodia, married a Cambodian people. Asked whether he speaks of the children, he said: do not say, speak French and Cambodian. I asked back to China?, he said, not back, scared, Communist Party, was afraid. Then he himself went on to say that, although it is not like the Chinese, but Taiwan more wrong. In any case, you want to split, is wrong. And then he also said that now seems to be strong again in China. ...... People are at fault, changed. I said yes, ask him to think back and see. He said that now is not enough, at least ten years. Like rich people, now it is all the money, not like Hong Kong, relatively stable ... ... Also tell us the lion dance Youngman are students, this is now learning the lion dance, no way, other people have to work, not a professional.

Listening to him so take a seat East West riding is talking to himself, listening to gongs, watching him wearing red qipao beautiful daughter in the restaurant at the door and said to smile, looks at a piece of vases red firecrackers paper fly around, a loud bang, accompanied by shouts of joy.

At that moment felt so strange. In this exotic Chinese year of the busy, Mr. next to an old saying about his country's hate and love to see him here rooting for future generations, it really is a very strange feeling. Where is the home countries? love and hate what are inseparable. Love often accompanied by hate. Hate often by love. Country, on the side of ordinary people. Demystifying Penetration which you want to, it is not easy.

Night returned, this time in a few lines, local TV 2 in a party, much like our Spring Festival Gala, magic, acrobatics, funny sketch, singing and dancing, I felt a wave of surprise, which is then give me a little spring festival atmosphere, good with my note of this new year of 2005.

We wish our motherland is getting better and better.

Wish you all every new year all! Ankang happy!