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Shèngdàn Lǎorén

Christmas Old Man: shèng” means saint; dàn” means birth

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Charlotte Pendragon
Dec 23, 2023
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On one late summer/early fall day in the early 2000s, my plane landed in Hong Kong and I headed for the city of Shenzhen, located in mainland China. There were four of us wandering - looking for our transportation to Shenzhen. All I could see was a sea of buses, and all the signs, billboards, and directions were written in Chinese…

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