Chinese New Year in My Husband's Hometown | Life in China Vlog

For the first time celebrating Chinese New Year in my husband's hometown in rural China. Ep 48⬇See more below⬇

First, I want to say to all of you affected by the coronavirus you are in my thoughts. Sending you lots of love and strength! Me, my family and friends are fine. Please stay safe, everyone!

In this Life in China Vlog I'll show you how we celebrated our first Chinese New Year together with my Chinese husband. I have not shown you my husband before or even told you I have a husband, but since we recently got married, here we go, our first vlog together!

We went to my Chinese husband's hometown in rural China, Zhejiang province, to celebrate Chinese New Year 2020. This was my first time celebrating Chinese New Year in my husband's hometown. Rural China differs a lot from Beijing, where we normally live, and I loved it!

Chinese have different traditions related to CNY. In my Chinese husband's hometown they have a tradition of making mantous, Chinese bun-like baking products, during the Chinese New Year. I wanted to make this video about Chinese New Year cooking, but I failed since I took a nap and slept too long, so I missed half of the cooking process of the mantou, haha!

In addition to mantou, there are lots of fireworks and firecrackers as Chinese New Year traditions. Many local governments in China have forbidden Chinese fireworks due to the bad air quality, but my husband's hometown is far away in the mountains of Zhejiang in rural China, so people still set off fireworks and firecrackers.

There are lots of other Chinese traditions related to Chinese New Year in China, as well, such as red envelopes, or the so-called hongbao, which are filled with money. Hongbao is usually given to kids, but since we just recently got married, I also received a hongbao. :)

In addition, one nice Chinese New Year tradition is the Chinese New Year decorations, especially duilian or Chinese couplets. I really like Chinese couplets. They are usually red, as all the Chinese New Year decorations are, and they include good wishes for the new year. This year we bought the Chinese couplets, but hopefully next year we could already make the duilian ourselves.

Finally and most importantly, Chinese New Year is all about food. Chinese food differs from city to city or even from a village to village. In my husband's hometown in Zhejiang China the most important Chinese food includes mantou and all kinds of meat. Chinese often celebrate Chinese New Year by making jiaozi, dumplings, but in my husband's hometown they make mantou.

I hope you like this Chinese New Year vlog. I wanted to upload this Chinese New Year vlog before I finish my Japan vlog, since I felt like this is more timely now. However, I will definitely finish the Japan vlog series as well, as soon as I get it edited.

Happy Chinese New Year of Rat to everyone!

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Hi! I'm Kaisa, I'm originally from Helsinki, Finland but now I'm currently living and working in Beijing.☆ My channel is mainly lifestyle based. I love cooking, traveling and exploring new things, especially related to East Asia. I want to share my experiences and thoughts on living and working abroad as an expat in China.

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