It's not actually snowing here, cold and crisp but with lovely blue sunny skies. The ski slopes are open, the carol singers are singing and there are many chances to have Xmas lunches and dinners and drinks. There is some Xmas spirit ( and lots of love) in the air, but mainly in hotels and shopping centres.
Even the rickshaw driver has got the right festive colour for his rickshaw.
It seems Santa changes to riding a horse when he gets to China!
Interesting mix of Chinese and Western styles (Shanghai shikumen)
Smiling waitresses at a restaurant where Santa was serving "Angry Milk Tea"
Chinese knots with the 'fortune' character go well with Xmas tree decorations!
It seems that Tibetan Lama monks also go Xmas shopping.
Santa flying into a restaurant by parachute
Perhaps the Santa saleswoman is feeling a little cold selling ice cream!
On the other hand, this Santa must be feeling so hot cooking barbecue meat！
I guess you can read the Chinese here, offering super value lunches/dinner on Xmas Day for just over USD2.
Santa was not a Prince with a royal crown.......
Nor did he have a castle............
.........Actually it was all for the Prince Charming - a foreign royal of course - and his Chinese "princesses".
If you want to spoil your only child why not buy him/her a big black Santa for a lucky 588 yuan or just over USD93 ( or about the price of 40 Xmas lunches at Macdonalds!). Expensive? Yes, but it is Xmas after all!
Chrismas trees and lights were put up on the main shopping street of Qian Men
It's just a stone's throw from Chairman Mao's Mausoleum....I just wonder what he thinks about all this consumerism.
May I take this chance to wish you all a Merry Xmas and all the best for 2012. We will celebrate it quietly here, because of course the real New Year is not till Jan 23rd!
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