People in China celebrate winter festival Updated: 2004-12-21 22:37
Migrant labourers enjoy jiaozi or dumplings in
a cold, dilapidated shed yesterday to celebrate the winter Solstice, a
traditional festival, at a construction site at Yingcheng Square in
Pingdingshan, a city in Central China's Henan Province. On the rural
Chinese calendar the day, with the longest night, marks the arrival of the
coldest days of the year and a time for people to celebrate their harvests
after busy seasons. Dumplings with meat and vegetable stuffings are
traditional for most northern Chinese, while sweet dumplings or tangyuan
are common in the south. [newsphoto]
People make dumplings by themselves.
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Workers enjoy the dumplings they made. [newsphoto]
A man calls home to send festival greeting.
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In the south, people pick up Tangyuan in stead of Jiaozi.
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