🚶📷Chinese New Year Shopping at a town centre | 到市镇中心买年货 (by @ace108)

in #photography7 years ago

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The countdown to Chinese New Year continues and the shopping for the new year is something most Chinese people will do. In the past, most of the new year shopping in Singapore happens in Chinatown, In recent years, many other locations, especially different residential town centres organised their own new year market. Last weekend, I was greeted by the God of Wealth when I did some new year shopping. Come along and see where I went and what are in the stall.
农历想你快到了。庆祝新年当然免不了到年货市场买点年货。以前,在新加坡买年货都要去牛车水(唐人街)。近几年,屋区都举办自己的年货市场。上个周末,我就在屋区的年货市场见到财神爷。大家跟我看我到哪里和摊位卖什么。
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Ang Mo Kio Town Centre | 宏茂桥市镇中心

I went to Ang Mo Kio Town Centre.
我就到了宏茂桥市镇中心。
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Chinese like to buy new things for the new year and some of the new stuff we buy that can be found in the new year markets are these.
华人总喜欢在过年的时候买很多新东西。就好像在年货市场能找到的这些。
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What I didn’t expect to see at the market were these comical characters.
万万想不到在市场会看到这动画主角。
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I was looking for decorations items. So, I was spending time mostly in the the stall having them.
我实在找新年装饰所以时间都花在买装饰的摊位。
Firecrackers are banned in Singapore but doesn’t mean we cannot have decorative ones and some electronic ones make noise very much like the real firecrackers nowadays.
新加坡禁止放鞭炮被,但是这些鞭炮的装饰是合法的。有些电子的还会发出放鞭炮的声音。
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Even fake fruits are used as decorations.
假水果也用来做新年装饰。
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These red envelopes are for what we called Hong Bao (kind of symbolizes lucky money especially to the kids getting them).
现在的红包款式真多。
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Lanterns and lanterns. So many of them.
各式各样的灯笼。
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Cheaper per item if you buy more.
买多点比较划算。
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Nice post! Chinese New Year and Eastern attributes are popular in Russia.

Really? I know some towns bordering China have lots of trade going on but I didn't know it's popular in Russia too.

Thank you for posting @ace108. Appreciate the tour through the shopping mall and the introduction to another way of doing a thing.

you're welcome. thanks for your comment.

What did you buy?

We didn't end up buying anything. The main thing we are looking for was a couplet which is a pair of scrolls with auspicious phrase to put on both side of the entrance. Could not agree which to buy and afraid regretting because will see better ones elsewhere. bit of a LOL because every year, it's the same pattern. it's like you don't spend enough time looking, you don't make a decision. then, you have to make a decision when you are running out of time.
Thanks for your comment.

Nice post and I love the way you dressed the photos with the red frames... I can feel the festival atmosphere :) Have you got all those red pocket money ready to give out for childrens, haha?

Thanks for the kind words. I made a ppt template with blue background which ends up as the frame when i import the images. Then i started to decide different time should wear different colour. 😀
Time to go plan a trip to the bank to change new money. Starbucks cards work for Christmas but steem doesn’t work for hong bao.

The red envelope display reminds me of how some of my students try to hustle me for lucky money every spring festival.

If you are not married, that's an excuse.
Otherwise, you have to find another excuse like maybe you don't look Chinese. haha :-)

浏览你的帖子 能感受到 市场浓烈的节日氛围,@ace108有空来XuZHou.China玩 我们这也好玩的呢 农村小镇的氛围一点不输呢

小镇应该跟亲切吧。

Great stuff! they celebrate in London all the time :)

Should be quite exciting. I think the Chinatown there is one of the bigger one in Europe. Definitely bigger that the Antwerp one I was at a few years back.

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