Traditionally, the last night of the Chinese new year celebrations, Lantern Festival is another opportunity to set the skies and streets alight with thousands of fireworks.
Fireworks light up the Beijing Drum Tower
We went out for a great dinner - My Humble House - a beautifully designed Chinese fusion restaurant in the Oriental Plaza complex and then for a walk to Tiananmen Square to see what was happening. We though there would celebrations going on but even though there were plenty of people out and about the square was shut off and nobody allowed on. That is a rare sight in itself.
Coming home, the streets and pavements were a sea of red firecracker fragments as families and friends set off huge boxes of fireworks on street corners. One child was happily sitting on top of a giant, ready to be used, box of fireworks which, his mother told us with great pride, contained 100 rockets.
View across to an empty Tienanmen Sq with Great Hall of the People in the background on Lantern Festival
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