The Zoo's meerkats were given pinecone baubles stuffed with festive veg to munch on.
Jewelry makers are offering cheaper baubles for unmarried sweethearts.
The likelihood is that most of those baubles, tinsel and flashing LED lights you've draped liberally around your house came from Yiwu, 300km south of Shanghai – where there's not a (real) pine tree nor (natural) snowflake in sight.