"BREAK INTO PRISON" SEASON SPRING

If the US has an amazing TV Show “Prison Break”, then China has its own version of the opposite “Break Into Prison”. Sounds funny, right? Let’s read the whole story!

American Version

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Chinese Version

Spring is coming in China! It was marked by the most celebrated holiday: The Chinese New Year, which is celebrated in the beginning of Spring each year. But, the winter lasted longer this year in China. How ’bout in your place? Is it the same?

Spring has sprung!

Speaking about Spring! Yeay!!! I’m very excited about Spring!

The easiest formula for Spring:

Spring -> Cherry Blossom -> Japan

Sakura scene at Tokyo Imperial Palace

How about China?

China is AH-MA-ZING too! Yeah, China is also gifted with amazing panoramic places! Spring is one of the best time to explore China.

Sakura scene at Tongji University, Shanghai

It doesn’t stop there, by the way. There is an even unique place that Chinese people think very beautiful in the spring, that they tried their best to break into! PRISON

Unfortunately, part of a prison in southern China has a place where peach trees bloom! Peach trees cover an area of three hectares at a staff residential compound at the jail. More than 10,000 people visited this prison in Guilin to see the blossom.

People break into Guilin’s Jail to see the Peach trees

Peach trees area inside the jail

But, since last month, visitors were banned from entering due to some problems. It’s because people pulling branches off the trees or littering the area, but they are still coming, with some climbing over a fence to get in. One woman who climbed over the prison’s wall was quoted as telling an officer who came to stop her that she had come all the way from the centre of the city and really wanted to see the beautiful blossoms.