The Mid-Autumn Festival, 仲秋节 , is the second biggest traditional Chinese festival and is celebrated on the 15th August of the lunar calendar. On this holiday usually families gather, enjoy the full moon, light some lanterns, eat some moon cakes, drink tea. The festival was originally a harvest festival. The mythological story can be read here . In the evening when the darkness falls, people light lanterns making the environment very cosy and beautiful. I spent the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 first joining a hike to a nearby hill organized by a ”Bitcoin and Coding” student organization here at the university. On the hill we had some snacks and played some games. All the others were Chinese, except for Weronika and me, and we got to practice our Chinese a lot. We were kinda, just by mistake, taken into this hike event since we just passed their stand a few days ago and they asked us to join. So we jumped to the chance and took it as an interesting experience. My ...
We, Elena, Weronika, Bill and I, got up really early this morning to leave off towards Xiamen. The railway station 杭州东站 was really full since this was the beginning of the Golden Week, where nearly all Chinese have a week of holidays, starting from the National Day on October 1st. The train to Xiamen took 7 hours. Well arrived in Xiamen, we took the metro and a bus towards our hostel. The hostel was really nice. We had a room for four and even a bathroom with a proper shower. So luxurious! In the evening we went out for dinner and to explore the neighborhood next to our hostel. The neighborhood has lots of cats living on the street and the district around our hostel was kind of hipster with lots of colors and cat decorations. For dinner I tried something typical for Xiamen, 厦门海蛎煎 Xiamen oyster fry. I didn't really understand what I ordered because on the picture it looked like a Pizza. In fact it was an omelette with lots of oysters. Interesting combo... ...
Hangzhou 杭州 ist berühmt für seinen grünen tee und südwestlich der Stadt gibt es grosse Teeplantationen. Wir entschieden uns Spontan beim Mittagessen mit Elena (Italien), Aaron (Schweiz) und Michael (Deutschland) heute einen Ausflug zu den Teeplantationen zu machen. Claudia (Italien) ist dann auch mitgekommen. Zu erst haben wir uns mit dem lokalen veröffentlichen Verkehr zu den Teeplantationen orientiert und dann haben wir eine Wanderung im Gebiet gemacht. Es war richtig heiss draussen und sogar im Schatten hat man geschwitzt wie verrückt. Alle waren ziemlich müde nach diesem Ausflug. Aber die Wanderung hat sich echt gelohnt und die Aussichten waren unglaublich!
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