Chinese New Year Trip to Shangougou This CNY ended up with a bunch of friends to Chinese village called Shangougou... It's been 3 CNY without celebrating with my familiar. Chinese New Year is the most meaningful and important festival in China. For people who left their hometown and work in other places will go back their hometown. meeting families, having a lot nice meal together and visiting friends and relatives are our traditions. It's like Christmas for western people. I was considering to travel outside of China, but I checked the price, everything is insanely pricey. I gave up this idea. Therefore I asked some friends join me a hiking trip and celebrate CNY with Chinese locals. For sure it's nothing special for me, I just don't want to stay empty Shanghai alone. The first day, we went hiking in the bamboo forest, along with raw road which you could not see the road. It was not so high but the roads made it a little tough. Some places are steep and tricky. Anyhow, we helped each other and used abandoned bamboo for hiking stick. After 2 hours, we still didn't reach the top and it seemed there was not track. All of us had a little conflict, some of us wanted to explore more, the rest asked to go back along the way we hiked up. As a risker taker, I followed with explorer, but half hour later, we could not hike up anymore. Obviously there was no end. So we went back. Then we started making dumplings and writing couplets on own, one of the CNY tradition is having dumplings. As most of us are not Chinese, you could see all kind of shapes dumplings, some looks like Baozi. continue