Residents of Zezhang village in Yuncheng, southern Shanxi province, knead dough into huamo, decorated steamed buns popular in North China, March 25. Locals in the south of Shanxi –– which grows high-quality wheat –– have a traditional custom of honoring and remembering their ancestors with huamo on Tomb Sweeping Day, the fourth or fifth day of the fourth lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar, to pray for good health and harvests. [Photo/Xinhua] |
A resident of Zezhang village makes huamo in the shape of a fish with a pair of scissors, Shanxi province, March 25. [Photo/Xinhua] |