A week to go to Spring Festival
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-19 16:40

People select Spring Festival lanterns in a street in Mengcheng County, east China's Anhui Province, January 18 2009, a week ahead of the traditional Spring Festival. Xiaonian, or Minor New Year, is the twenty-third day of the last month on the Chinese lunar calendar. On this day, Chinese worship the Kitchen God, who looks after a family's fortunes, for blessings in the next year. [Xinhua]

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