Snapshots
| New year's ablution: Fountains of water douse the crowd celebrating the Water-Splashing Festival in the Dai autonomous prefecture of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan province on April 15. The festival, which is also the New Year festival for the Dai people, is a traditional folk custom. People spray each other with water and pray for good fortune. Hao Yaxin / For China Daily |
| All skin and strings: A kite in the shape of a panda is prepared for takeoff at a festival in Weifang, Shandong province, on April 18. Zhang Chi / For China Daily |
| A child's dream: A tree in Chongqing braces three floors and a total of nine rooms. The room at the top is 12 meters above the ground. Chen Cheng / Xinhua |
| Where's Jarvis? Cheng Chen helps his nephew don his homemade Iron Man armor in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, on April 13. Cheng spent about 500 yuan ($80) to make the costume, which weighs about 4 kilograms and has plastic boards and LED lights. Reuters |
| Moving performance: Kunqu Opera performers on a subway in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on April 20 before performing the traditional art form on the train as part of a promotional campaign. You You / For China Daily |
(China Daily European Weekly 04/24/2015 page5)
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