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By Derek Sandhaus The new year is almost upon us and it's time to start making plans for the big night. One option is to drop a lot of cash on an upscale option like Bar Rouge's Monarchy Party (black-tie and pleasant smelling flatulence required) or Xintiandi's S.H.E.-licious Countdown Bash . For some of us though, New Year's Eve is all about the simple pleasures in life like open-mouthed kisses with horse-faced strangers and drinking......

Continuing the fine Shanghaiist tradition of plagiarizing and plundering regurgitating Shanghai Daily stories, we bring you this article:SHANGHAI named 83 folk arts as its first batch of city-level intangible culture heritage today as part of the city's efforts to protect and promote these "traditional treasures." The popular "Huju Opera, Lion Dancing, Dough Modeling and the Longhua Temple Fair" can be found on the list, which has 10 categories -- folk music, dances, operas, folk art,......

Attendance falling at your local place of worship? Loyal herd looking elsewhere for spiritual direction? Have a carnival! That'll win 'em back. If only the Pope had thought of it ... like the Shanghai Xuhui District Tourist Bureau did. It's annual Longhua Temple Festival runs until May 7th, meaning you have one weekend left to catch all the fun. The press release promised a food street filled with snacks from around China (Taiwan, Dongbei,......

Sure, your wife/husband/partner might slap you, but assure them that this is not a fanciful excuse, because it could really happen to you. If you were at Long Hua Temple on the 5th day of the new year, which was Thursday, you would encountered huge crowds of people and a miasma of incense. People go to temples and set off firecrackers that day in order to entice the god of wealth (财神) to work some......

Shanghai Daily reports that Shanghai's Longhua Temple is opening its 1,764-year-old pagoda to the public for the first time in decades: Visitors will be allowed on September 21 from 1pm to 4pm and September 22 and October 1 to 3 from 9am to 4pm. Ten visitors will be allowed to enter the ower for 20 minutes at a time. Tickets to Longhua Pagoda (second from the right in the Shanghaiist logo) are RMB 100 and......

Acting as a tourist-in-your-own-city can be addictive. Having enjoyed our exploration of the Longhua Temple and Martyrs’ Memorial during the Spring Festival, we looked for another fresh expedition right on our doorstep. This time we chose the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium, in the shadow of the Pearl Tower in Lujiazui. (At least, it would be in the shadow of the Pearl Tower if there was a single ray of sunshine to create a shadow. Miserable bloody......

Two days into the Spring Festival and Shanghaiist has already developed “cabin fever”. While most of our friends and colleagues have left for Vietnam, Thailand, London, Sydney and Harbin respectively, we’re having to make do with a week in our apartment, listening to the distant (and not-so-distant) snap, crackle and pop of fireworks, and waiting for the latest cold spell to kick in. Yesterday we took affirmative action and decided to be tourists in our......