December 2015 –
Do you see these little Christmas trees? This is apparently how Chinese people who probably know very little about Christmas trees and traditions decorate trees for shop displays. I found these poor little trees ….wait…don't they remind you of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree??? in a local mall just before Christmas. I'm honestly grateful that they went to any trouble at all decorating for a holiday they don't even celebrate so these trees are a sweet little gesture to the foreigners living in Tianjin.
There were many, many more of these trees – all equally bad. Like someone barfed tinsel and an ornament on the tree and called it good. I didn't bother to take photos of the rest of them.
Looking at these photos a month later still has me shaking my head and laughing.
One thing I can promise you – while the Chinese don't know how to decorate for Christmas they certainly know how to whoop it up for Chinese New Year!!!!! (which, incidentally, is actually called Spring Festival here in China…even though it's not even close to spring in these parts!!!!)