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Monday, February 22, 2016

Lantern Festival Celebrated across China


Tourists look at a giant lantern shaped like a fan at Longting Park in ancient city Kaifeng, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 21, 2016. Lanterns were hung around the city to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival which will fall on Feb. 22.


Tourists look at lanterns at Longting Park in ancient city Kaifeng, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 21, 2016. Lanterns were hung around the city to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival which will fall on Feb. 22.

Colorful lanterns and lights are decorated at Longting Park in ancient city Kaifeng, Henan Province, Feb. 21, 2016. Lanterns were hung around the city to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival which will fall on Feb. 22.

Giant lanterns decoration are seen hung in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Feb. 22, 2016. The traditional Lantern Festival fell on Monday.

Local residents walk by giant lanterns decoration in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Feb. 22, 2016. The traditional Lantern Festival fell on Monday. 
Local residents hold a lantern parade to celebrate the Toad Festival, a tradition to wish for good health and harvest in the lunar new year when people send away a symbolic toad figure representing illness, in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, Feb. 21, 2016.

Zhang Juntao, a lantern-making inheritor, introduces a giant lantern made by his father in the 1990s, at a studio in Kaifeng, Henan Province, Feb. 20, 2016. Zhang Juntao is an inheritor of a traditional lantern-making skill called Bianjing Lantern Zhang which has been handed down through generations in over two hundred years and was listed as one of the national intangible cultural heritages in 2008.

Colorful lanterns and lights are decorated at Longting Park in ancient city Kaifeng, Henan Province, Feb. 21, 2016. Lanterns were hung around the city to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival which will fall on Feb. 22.

Tourists mimic figure-shaped lanterns at Longting Park in ancient city Kaifeng, Henan Province, Feb. 21, 2016. Lanterns were hung around the city to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival which will fall on Feb. 22

Hong Kong's coastline looks even brighter with more than 25,000 LED roses.


Source: Xinhua


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