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Lantern Festival celebrations of the Year of the Ox
(Xinhua/CFP/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-02-09 11:53

Hakka residents gather at a family memorial temple with sacrifices to set off firecrackers as a celebration of the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival in a town in Ningdu county, east China’s Jiangxi province, on February 8, 2009. People hang up lanterns, solve riddles and eat yuanxiao, glutinous rice balls with sweet fillings to celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month, February 9 this year.[CFP]