Christmas is not a special holiday for most people in China. At best, we are just following the crowd.
However, China has such a magical place, which is famous all over the world because of Christmas …
In Zhejiang, China, every Christmas season in December, there will beA large number of foreign media got wind of it., focus on aMagical place.
They even gave this place a poetic name:Christmas village.
▲ Of course, it is not such a Christmas village.
(figure via network)
In the mouth of this foreign mediaChristmas village, is our county-level city in Zhejiang-Yiwu.
Yiwuhuman populationOnly over 1.2 million, almost from Shanghai.1/20. But this small county town isMade the world.2/3Christmas decorations of, sold all over the world.
According to the monthly records of Hangzhou Customs, between September 2016 and August 2017, more than 600 factories and workshops around Yiwu,Produced Christmas-related products worth $3 billion.Some local Christmas products factories said,At least 30% of their orders come from the United States, and other goods are shipped from Yiwu to Russian, Latin America and China.
(via reference message network)
Most of the Christmas products in the world are contracted, and they are produced all year round, which is simply the rhythm of "Christmas every day"!
For example, our photojournalist from Global Times went there last week.Yiwu, found there is like this …
(Figure by Yang Hui, the same below)
And this …
This eyeful Christmas tree, Santa Claus, says it is the most Christmas atmosphere in the world!
Facing such a magical and beautiful place,foreign mediaIt is also scrambling to report every year, and it will never get tired.
for exampleAmerican mediaABC, I came to Yiwu specially last year …
▲ Walk into the "Christmas Village" in China: Christmas decorations all over the world come from here (via ABC).
In order to receive all the goods in time for holiday sales back home, Christmas traders from all around the world make yearly pilgrimages to the city months in advance. Their first stop is often the Yiwu International Trade Market.In order to receive Christmas goods that can be sold in our country in time,Christmas buyers from all over the world make a pilgrimage to Yiwu several months in advance every year.Their first stop is usually Yiwu International Trade City.As the world’s demand for Christmas decorations continues, Yiwu seems poised to be the real-world Santa’s workshop for the foreseeable future.As the global demand for Christmas decorations continues to grow, it seems that in the foreseeable future,Yiwu will become the "Santa Claus Workshop" in the real world.
▲Inside China’s ‘Christmas Village,’ where the world’s decorations come from (via ABC)
▲ABC reporter Woodruff is visiting Yiwu’s Christmas store China (Figure via ABC)
Al JazeeraOur reporter also went to Yiwu …
▲ In this China city, every day is via Al Jazeera.
The reporter interviewed vendors in Yiwu, and they said that plastic Christmas trees and the like.stillUnited States of AmericaBuy more.
After all …
"We sell most of our trees to the United States: gaudy ones with flashing lights," says Reng Guoan, general manager of the Sinte An Christmas tree factory, which manufactures more than a million artificial trees each year. "We?Most Christmas trees are sold to America;It’s the kind of tree with bright colors and flashing lights. "The general manager of a Christmas tree factory in Yiwu said. The factory can produce more than 1 million artificial Christmas trees every year."The English like more traditional-style trees that aren’t electric. Australians don’t really buy artificial trees. They can just go out and cut one down.""Why do Americans buy more?Because the British don’t like this kind of tree with light bulbs, they prefer traditional trees. Australians don’t buy artificial trees very much either. They usually go out and cut down one."
▲Yiwu: The Chinese city where it’s Christmas every day (via Al Jazeera)
Go straight out and cut down a tree …So domineering
Yiwu has become a veritable "Christmas village" because it makes Christmas-related products.
However, according to X’s bosses in the village,They are celebrating Christmas, in fact.Less and less……
They produce and wholesale Christmas ornaments year after year.However, Christmas is almost never celebrated, and some people told reporters that "good business is a holiday."
▲ Yiwu export boss: We never celebrate Christmas (via watching the news)
"Good business is a holiday", which is true and sincere!
Actually, for many of our friends in China, what Christmas is this festival and that festival?In essence, it’s all the same-eat and have fun, and if there is someone, Xiu Xiu will love and abuse dogs and live together.
No wonder someone jokingly said, we are living a life."domestic Christmas".
for example"Send apples on Christmas Eve"This magical operation, it is absolutelyChina native people’s creation.……
It’s a homonym for "Ping" in Chinese, but the problem is that foreigners don’t speak Chinese.
By the way，Even the term "Christmas Eve" was invented by China people.The official saying is "Christmas Eve", that is, "Christmas Eve".
Who has a better back for this pot? Then let the following song recite it! )
Silent night → quiet night → safe night → Christmas Eve!
Evolution is complete!
as for"Santa Claus"?
Uh-huh, since I’m in China, thenDo as the Romans do!
▲ Santa Claus (photo via@ media, the same below)
▲ Christmas Terracotta Warriors and Horses
▲ Old people who read the Book of Changes at Christmas.
▲ Christmas Guan Yu old man
So, I don’t care what festival it is. If I’m in the mood, I’ll eat and play in buy buy and celebrate. If I’m not in the mood, I’ll work overtime as usual and learn to do whatever I like.
It’s the end of the year, isn’t it just to be happy ~
I wish you all a happy day!
Source: Global Times English Edition
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