In the narrow streets of the working-class district in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, there are second-hand refrigerators and TV sets to buy. Hairdressers and laundries have houses in the canyons their small shops, dealers on the corners of vegetables for sale. Through the narrow aisles scurry prostitutes, and also the employees of the restaurant "Golden chopsticks" hurrying to work.
In this warm days of December, they are unusually dressed the waitresses from the "Golden chopsticks" wear red and white Christmas hats on their showcase restaurant hangs a wreath of artificial: "Merry Christmas!"
So as bizarre in Shenzhen is everywhere in China. The most atheistic country celebrates Christmas: Before Beijing's "Vogelnest" Olympic stadium, they have drawn up a huge tree in front of the Workers' Stadium and many other attractions of the city which also blink.
The stands in the Shin Kong shopping mall in Beijing Central Business District are also equipped with fir trees and gift packages with colorful decorated. From the loudspeakers dudelt "Jingle Bells", Christmas wreaths hang on the walls, in the supermarket, a basement, there are tree balls to buy.
A Christmas tree made of plastic, about half a meter high, costs 78 yuan (about eight euros). In the supermarket chain Jingkelong "it already exist for 48 yuan.
Christmas Dinner for Euro 5200
The restaurants and hotels have the Christmas Eve and the first Christmas Day as a sales hit discovered. They offer special buffets and meals, spendieren to a serving of turkey and a glass of red wine. The A-che-bar in the Dongzhimenwai Street attracts the evening of the 24th December with a buffet of Spanish and Latin American food for 298 yuan (31 euros).
The Pangu 7 Star Hotel next to the Olympic site even advertises on the English KP newspaper "China Daily" for a "Courtyard" Christmas dinner with a lovely view over the water cube and the Vogelnest ". The price per person: 3131 to 5218 euros. These must be at least ten people per table appear? everything is to be paid in advance, plus 15 percent tax, of course.
"We celebrate halt, as the fall festivals," joked a Beijing professor who is familiar with his family on Christmas Day to the fine food in the Zhai-Men-Seafood Garden in the east of the city wants to undo.
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Well notes: With religion or even a rise of Christianity in China has little to do everything. Most people know little of the background of the feast. As with the United States imported from China Merchants make Valentine's Day with their Christmas business.
Thus, the 24th and 25 December in the People's Republic because even normal work and school, the only Christian churches may be on these days to celebrate their festival of worship. Spiritual Concerts, however, are prohibited.
In the southern metropolis of Shenzhen, they produce artificial Christmas trees until shortly before the celebration in full swing. In order to remain competitive, manufacturers are developing new gags. Some trees are spinning, spraying artificial snow and play Christmas carols. At other hang small LCD screens.
From five in the world were sold Furchtbarkeiten now four from Shenzhen? even the White House has ordered what.
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