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With all the talk of National Day, we may have completely forgotten to mention how Shanghai celebrated it. Here's a good reason - it was rainy and gross. We stayed indoors most of the time, glued to the television screen and its vision of a sunny, beautiful fall day in Beijing.

With only a week and a half left before the 60th anniversary of the PRC, it seems the whole country has caught National Day fever. Capturing the excitement, Boston.com has a wonderful collection of photos from various sources depicting many different preparations around China. We particularly like the fashion military parade pictures: those outfits are fabulous! But amidst all the hoopla, it's a difficult time to be in Beijing.

What's up with all this Tiananmen-styled commemorative hair? We've been trying to burn the image of the hair replica of Tiananmen from our memories for quite some time now, but with only two weeks to go until the big day, we're bracing ourselves for more China-related hair. It just seems like human hair sculptures are the most fitting way to celebrate an occasion as important as the 60th anniversary of the PRC, for some inexplicable reason.

True, the government has been quite busy in the preparations surrounding the 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China: crackdowns on illegal firearms and explosives, tighter security than at the olympics for the National Day celebrations, and the classic visa clampdowns that come with every important holiday. But what about the celebration?

The planned protests against the Green Dam Youth Escort turned into celebrations on Wednesday, when Chinese authorities suddenly postponed their order of the infamous censorware program. In turn, Lots of young Chinese netizens gathered to turn their Green Dam anger into a feast.

This Lantern Festival, villagers in Nanchuan, China carried out a 500-year tradition - throwing molten iron against a wall to create showers of fireworks. The act, called 打树花 （da shu hua - or beating a tree for flowers), looks dangerous. But the throwers insist that it's not as long as you're not afraid to die.

             

While living in Beijing may have been a little more exciting this Monday, Shanghai was having a relatively uneventful and probably more gleeful 元宵节 (The Lantern Festival). Former Shanghaiist contributor Peijin Chen took these great photos of the city in celebration.