Source: Yiwu sourcing agent Author: Helan Date: 2008-02-19
Whether they can speak Chinese fluently or not,"Happy new year!"and "GongXiFaCai(Wish you a good fortune!)" are the most frequently used two greeting words of those foreigners,who do business in Yiwu in recent days. For the China Commodity City will be open on 12th of the first lunar month,these foreigners celebrated the Chinese Spring Festival in China.
"We prepare Chinese foods and Western foods for the New Year dinner."A Swiss merchant,Michael Rechsteiner told the reporter that he and his wife prepared salmon,beef steak,salad,broccoli,scrambled eggs with tomatoes and we spent a Chinese New year with a lot of delicious food.Michael comes from St.Gallen in Switzerland,and this is the second spring festival he spent in China."In the past, I knew Chinese Spring Festival by watching TV in Switzerland, what surprise me most is that there are more than 280 million people going back home to spend Spring Festival with all kinds of transportations.There are a lot of people traveling from North or Central Europe to South Europe to spend their summer holidays every year, but 280 million is still an astonishing number!" Michael did business in China in 2004 and became a Chinese son-in-law.In his eyes,Chinese Spring Festival is absolutely a marvel."The traditional Chinese calendar does not start from January 1st,every year you will have a different spring festival.There are so many people in supermarkets,and people set off so many firecrackers. In Switzerland,people only set off firecrackers on August 1st and December 31st." Although his Chinese is not very good, Michael is very interested in the Spring Festival evening gala on CCTV." I dont know what exactly there Chinese comedians are speaking,but their facial expressions and actions are very pleasant."
Comparatively speaking, the recent life of Qutibh Alzghol,a Jordanian businessman is fairly quiet. On the contrary, he was very busy befor spring festival. Because of the long vacation, lots of factories would take breaks in this period, so he had to pruchase and deliver goods quickly. During the break in spring festival,Qutibh drove to Shanghai with his wife and son for fun for 3 days."I have already gone back to Jordan last July, so I stay in China this time.I've already greeted my parents and brothers and sisters by phone recently."And to show his greeting to Chinese employees, he prepared some red packets on his office desks."I have distributed most of them, only a few have left."
The spring festival life of Han KiJung, a Korean businessman is the most colorful."This year, my parents-in-law and my uncle spent the New Year in Yiwu during the vacation, and on the first day of the first lunar month, we made sacrifices to the ancestors, paid New Year calls to seniors and paid New Year phone calls to my parents in Pusan. Although it's my first time to spend New Year in China, for the companion of seniors, I didn't feel too much difference."There are more than 3000 Korean businessmen in Yiwu,43-year-old Han KiJung is the vice president of Yiwu Korean Businessman Association. He told the reporter that nearly 200 Korean businessmen spend the New Year in Yiwu."A few days ago, several Korean fellow traders and I got together to drink and sing, and we had a very good time."The TV in Han KiJung's home was broadcasting the SBS program of Korea continuously. He introduced that the Korean TV stations also played a lot of programs about Spring Festival, especially on Chinese Spring Festival recently. This made lots of Korean people who had never been to China know the Chinese Spring Festival."We korean people will also stick the Chinese character FU and write spring couplets as well as Chiese do.But Chinese people like the bustling atmos phere and firecrackers much more.Korean people generally have a fireworks display in the Spring Festival and are mainly those young people in love.
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