Source: Qinhuangdao Daily
The Spring Festival is approaching, and everywhere is full of strong festival atmosphere.
People go shopping in the malls, supermarkets, and farmers’ markets for Spring Festival goods.
All of the markets are booming.
Purchasing groceries
At 10 am on January 20, the parking lot in Yiwu Commodity City has been full of private cars. As soon as they entered the gate, people’s eyes were attracted by red lanterns and colorful lights. Lele, a little girl who came to buy Spring Festival goods, selected a pair of Fus(Fortune) with the cartoon rats on them at a store on the 1st floor.
“I want her to feel the festival atmosphere and buy something for the lunar new year,” said Ms. Liu, Lele’s mother, adding that now children don’t long for the Spring Festival as their parents did, because they have had whatever they wanted in ordinary times, she wants to take her daughter to feel the sense of ritual unique to the Spring Festival through buying the Spring Festival couplets and Fu(Fortune).
There are many kinds of couplets and Fus(Fortune) at the stores. In addition to the common red and gold letters on a black background, there are couplets with artistic embroidery and magnet, as well as Fu(Fortune)which can be installed with a battery—a swinging small cute rat with a gold ingot in its arms.
“The week before the festival is the busiest. We have to go to the warehouse several times a day,” said Lin Yixiong, who specializes in the wholesale of festive goods, is busy with wholesale orders while talking to customers.
Supermarkets are popular
Boxes of wine, imported fruits, seafood gift boxes ... At 2 pm on January 20, almost all customers were carrying shopping carts full of goods in a large supermarket and lined up to pay.
“It’s more convenient to come to the supermarket, because I can buy all the gifts here,” said Mr. Song, who bought a few boxes of seafood and high-end fruits, and smiled that he was “offering gifts and health.” In the “New Year’s goods Street” set up by supermarket, various kinds of candies, dried fruits and other commodities are placed in eye-catching positions, and a continuous stream of consumers are selecting.
Right now, Huimin meat and vegetables are being sold in 25 supermarkets across the city. “I bought 8 kg of Huimin pork for stewing and making meatballs,” said Ms. Liang, adding that she doesn’t buy something for storage even the Huimin meat and vegetables are cheaper than usual, because she wants fresh meat and vegetables, and she can buy them from the supermarket whenever she need, where is not closed during the Spring Festival.
Flowers and plants are popular
In addition to the foods and beverages on the household table, and the gifts, the flower market has also entered the most popular period of the year, there are green foliage planting, the colorful rhododendrons, and the blooming orchids, etc... On January 20, the business in a flower market was booming. Beautiful flowers with different shapes and colors are plentiful, attracting many people to buy. “I want to buy some blooming flowers to add a festive atmosphere,” said Ms. Wu, who had selected a pot of pink moth orchids worth of 300 yuan with 8 flowers of 1 meter high in the pot.
“The flowers are sold well at the end of each year, and I can sell fifty or sixty pots every day,” said Ms. Suo, a flower operator, who has been busy since the festival of the 23th of the 12th lunar month. She also called her family to help her to make some art potted plants. She smiled and told reporters that customers who came to buy flowers for gifts or for themselves. They have better tastes, indicating that the livelihood of the people are getting better and better.
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