Isolated village bids farewell to Lunar New Year in celebration

TAIYUAN - Bai Wuzi has called a cave his home for 35 years. It is where, in borrowed clothes, he married his blind wife and where their son and daughter were conceived and born. Xiazhai is a remote village between two mountains in Kelan county, Shanxi province.

While Chinese people bid farewell to the Year of the Rooster and welcome the Year of the Dog, Bai and his family are celebrating the last Lunar New Year in their old home, as the say goodbye to their poor, harsh lives on the mountain.

This year, they will move to an apartment in the county seat, part of China's efforts to eradicate poverty by 2020.