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Chinese celebrating Lunar New Year Festival
Peacocks and fresh flowers made China's lunar Chinese New Year Day dynamic and colorful in Kunming, known as the "Spring City" on a plateau in southwest China.
About 100 peacocks were strolling at a square attracting hundreds of curious local citizens in this capital city of Yunnan Province, hometown to the peacocks.
Kunming is the first city in China which has peacocks in the square after doves. It plans to raise about 200 peacocks in the city square, trying to help more people become more friendly with animals and birds.
A fresh flower market in the suburb of Kunming has been buzzing these days with over 5,000 dealers from across the country. Most of the three million sprigs of flowers traded each day are transported out of the province.
About half of the fresh flowers sold in Beijing and Shanghai during the Spring Festival this year came from Yunnan Province.
For the first time in his life, farmer Nong Youjin and his family members were able to watch TV on the eve of the Spring Festival. Nong and 310,000 people in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region live along the mountainous border between China and Viet Nam.
Thanks to the help of the regional government, six cities and counties at the border that have electricity were installed with satellite broadcast ground receivers. People in these places can now watch the annual evening party held by the China Central Television on the eve of the Spring Festival.
Though a heavy rain fell on the first day of the Chinese lunar New Year, people's enthusiasm for the festival was not affected in Nanchang, capital city of Jiangxi Province in east China.
The provincial museum has received over 10 times the number of visitors during the holiday than on other days. Free square concerts attracted many local people who were fond of Chinese and western classical music.
Foreigners in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were also influenced by the Spring Festival atmosphere. Many of them make dumplings, a traditional food for Spring Festival, as their Chinese friends do.
Some said they would tell their relatives and friends about how Chinese celebrate their most important festival of the year via the Internet.
Ancient Chinese created a 12-year circle marked by different animals, orderly mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
A family in east China's Zhejiang Province is a pretty special family because all 12 members of the family were born in years bearing all 12 animals.
Zhao Heliang, farmer of Weishan Township, was born in the year of snake in 1941. He did not realize until two years ago that his 10 family members were all born in different years of animals. His daughter gave birth to a baby in 1999, the year of rabbit, so that all the 12 people in the family could represent different animals of the 12-year circle.
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