When I grew up, there was no “Chinese New Year”. There was Lunar New Year and Spring festival. Somehow lately, many young Chinese pinkies think that China owns this festival and everyone has to call it the “Chinese New Year”.
So, this week, the British Museum was celebrating the lunar New Year with Korean dancers.
The tweet got so much reaction from pinkies who insisted that it is a Chinese New year that British Museum actually deleted this tweet.
Well, not all British institutions are so timid. The UK Embassy to Vietnam bravely celebrate the Meow Year:
In case you don’t know, this year is the year of rabbit for the Chinese, but a year of cat for the Vietnamese. Despite many protests to this tweet, the UK Embassy to Vietnam stood its ground and did not delete the tweet.
Larry, the cat of Downing street 10th, is actually aware that this is his year. But he also graciously share the spotlight with a rabbit.
Thanks to twitter, here are some sample of the rabbits from China. Hope you will enjoy them.
To celebrate the New Year, a little rabbit and a little tiger were together.
It did not exactly go as expected, enjoy the video.
A Chinese tourist visiting Thailand discovered that she could pay 7000 THB (around 215 USD) for the service of a Police Escort from the airport to her Hotel. So she tried it, and posted the video on Douyan. She was very happy about the service: the police was waiting for her at the exit of the plane and she was fast-tracked through immigration and then escorted with sirens on. Her video went viral, first in China, then worldwide.
So the National police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas labelled the incident a disgrace to the force, said Pol Maj Gen Atchayon Kraithong, spokesman for the Royal Thai Police (RTP). Pattaya News added Thai National Police Chief Orders Curb on “Police Lookalikes” who Allegedly Gave VVIP Services to Chinese Tourist while MCOT, the official Thai state media, reported No Legal Police Motorcade for Tourists: Deputy Prime Minister Anutin and added later that Another Police Officer Involved in Unauthorised Escort for Chinese Tourist.