Just like everyone else who participated, at 8:30pm sharp, we turned off most of the lights and fans at home. I think not many people in the neighbourhood participated – which was OK, as I believe this is just formality. The most important part is to treat mother earth nicely on daily basis.
Me and Wah, my parents, and little niece spent some time chit chatting in the living room. My mother told us stories of my grandparents which she had just learned from a relative early this afternoon. Stories of how my grandmother’s marriage was being arranged when she was only 6. Stories of why she could only come all the way from China when she was 27 or 28 to marry my grandfather, when almost all girls in China got married when they were 20 or so.
I certainly couldn’t imagine myself living in that century. Not that I’m a feminist, but marriage arranged at the age of 6?! And foot binding?!
This life isn’t that bad after all. :)
