Snapshots
| Stepping back in time: Middle school students from Confucius Institutes in Germany learn Huangmei Opera, a type of folk song and dance performance, at a primary school in Hefei, Anhui province, on Aug 8. An Jun / For China Daily |
| High-flyer: Magician Ning Ning performs an escape act at Juyongguan, a Great Wall scenic spot near Beijing, on Aug 5. The show was a warm-up for the World College Students' Magician Exchange in the capital from Sept 24 to 26. Liu Hang / For China Daily |
| Spaced-out vegetables: A woman holding a normal-sized pumpkin next to a 100 kilogram pumpkin grown from seeds that were taken to outer space. The woman was photographed at the Baguazhou Space Vegetable Center in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Aug 5. The center has found that some seeds taken into space and grown on Earth are high in yield and disease resistant. Cui Xiao / For China Daily |
| On target: A Tibetan contestant shoots from a horse in the 10th Chinese Ethnic Games in Erdos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Aug 10. The games drew 6,240 athletes from all 56 ethnic groups of China competing or performing in nearly 200 Chinese traditional sport events. Feng Yongbin / China Daily |
| Loop the loop: A contestant competes in a flying human competition, part of a motor boating event in Danjiangkou Reservoir, Hubei province, on Aug 9. Fourteen teams from across China competed for medals during the three-day event. Hao Tongqian / Xinhua |
(China Daily European Weekly 08/14/2015 page5)
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