Beijing Temple Fair: Chinese New Year Celebrations at Ditan Park

papercuts snuff bottles and Beijing Lord rabbit figurines born in the US nine year old Alan is visiting her grandparents in Beijing with her parents and this is her first experience of visiting a temple fair I told her that every year we worship the Lord of rabbit who will bless us I'm going to take curse he clay sculptures and paper cutting and she won't be able to see leaves in the u.s. not only handicrafts and food visitors can also get a lesson of history through demonstrations and a fair at this very venue Chinese emperors pray to the god of earth

hundreds of years ago this is the year of monkey it's the star of this temple Fair you can find all sorts of monkey products here like a monkey Chinese shadow puppets monkey paper cuts and this stuff the monkey dressed in traditional fabrics all these monkey products have brought a brisk business to the vendors there are always customers from morning to evening non-stop it keeps us very busy the stuffed monkeys are particularly popular this little visitor ellipse in the US but it's now on vacation in Beijing she has a special Lunar New Year present from

her mother I watched the TV series The Journey to the West when I was growing up so the stuffed monkeys refreshed my childhood memory and I'm emotionally attached to them also when my daughter grows up the monkey will remind her that she has visited China in the year of the monkey daehan temple fair is one of the biggest in beijing the five-day event which runs through Friday sees nearly 200,000 people a day Wang Wei CCTV Beijing