With the approaching of the Spring Festival, Kunming's streets and alleys are filled with a lively atmosphere, and the Zhuanxin Wet Market is even more lively as quite a number of citizens drag carts to purchase ingredients and goods for the Spring Festival, such as chicken, duck, fish, rice cake, eight treasures rice, seasonal vegetables, Chinese New Year couplets... What will foreigners prepare for the Spring Festival in China? How much do they know about the customs of the Spring Festival? Do they understand how to stick the Chinese character "Fu"? At 10:00 on January 17, the answers will be revealed in the Spring Festival goods live broadcast at home and abroad.

The event will be broadcast simultaneously on the Kunming Information Hub Douyin, WeChat Video Channel, YouTube and TikTok. At that time, Andre Jacques du Plessis, who got married with a Yunnan lady, and Christine, the anchor of Kunming Information Hub, will go to the Zhuanxin Wet Market to introduce the common delicacies for the Chinese Spring Festival's Eve and explain related customs, including pasting the Spring Festival couplets, sticking character "Fu", hanging inverted sugar cane stalks outside of front doors and so on. This event aims at making the traditional Chinese culture go global, and forming the festive atmosphere on the Internet.

It is reported that the Zhuanxin Wet Market is the largest and most diversified farmers' market in Kunming. There are about 1,000 stalls in the market, which are not only full of vegetables and meat, but also home made pickles, wine and other specialties.

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(Editors: Rachel, Amy)