Valentine’s Day, Chinese style

Today is Valentine’s Day, and on the pedestrian street near my apartment, there were plenty of people selling bouquets of “flowers.”

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But in the northeast of China, the real meaning of Valentine’s Day, no, the real meaning of any given day, is standing around a garbage pail eating sticks of meat.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope yours is more romantic than mine was!