The May Day ‘golden week’ has been one of the most important holidays for holding music festivals in China since they first began in the country in the early 2000s.

Although in-person festivals continued throughout the Covid zero years, the events held during this year’s holiday still seem to have had the feel of ‘revenge spending’ or ‘revenge partying’.

Modern Sky held events in Shanghai and Beijing the last few days celebrating 15 years of its Strawberry Festival (this year’s theme: ‘Still here’). Here are a few photos I lifted from their WeChat account (clockwise from top left: the Beijing site, 33EMYBW, Dada with a rubber duck, Shanghai crowds).