Kindergarten's temple fair warms mom's heart

Temple fairs are a major attraction for Chinese during the Spring Festival. But a recent experience at two such fairs was quite an eye-opener.

On the second day of the lunar New Year, we took our 4-year-old son to Shijingshan Recreation Park in western Beijing for its famed temple fair whose grand parade is supposed to have many foreign acts.

But like other such fairs in the metropolis, we found it overwhelmingly commercial with hardly a trace of the real essence of the Spring Festival.