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CHINESE NEW YEAR - FEBRUARY 7, 2008

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« Reply #30 on: February 06, 2008, 09:17:39 am »



A performer smiles during Spring Festival
celebrations on the eve of the Lunar
New Year in Beijing. Drum rolls and
dragon dances set off Lunar New Year
celebrations in Beijing as revellers
welcomed an Olympic-themed

Year of the Rat.

(AFP/Frederic J. Brown






Lunar New Year gets off to Olympic start in China Wed Feb 6, 5:48 AM ET
 


BEIJING (AFP) - Drum rolls and dragon dances set off Lunar New Year celebrations here Wednesday
as revellers welcomed an Olympic-themed Year of the Rat.
 
Millions will throng parks across the country to enjoy the food and fun during the holiday season and
in Beijing, the host of the 2008 Olympics, there was an added dimension at Long Tan Park.

The park's temple fair was chosen by Olympic organisers to showcase the Games and bring the
Olympics closer to the people.

Adults and children were invited to try their hand at sports they have only seen on television such
as archery, shooting, fencing and boxing.

Transport worker Dong Yi, 32, said she had gained respect for Olympic competitors after shooting
a pistol.

"They shoot twice -- bang! bang! -- and get the full score. I shot for a long time until my arm was
shaking. It's very hard. Those Olympic champions are really great."

Singers, dancers, acrobats and artists performed lavish shows in the parks while food stalls groaned
under an array of delicacies including baked scorpion on sticks.

For those with a sweet tooth, sugared Osama Bin Laden-shaped candies were on offer along with
rat-shaped lollipops.

Children skated around dressed as fuwa, the animal-shaped Olympic mascots.

With the Beijing Games just over 180 days away, 26-year-old magazine editor Chi Yan thought he
would try his luck on a rowing machine in one of several Olympic booths set up in the park.

"That's hard work. Hats off to the athletes," he said.

For many Chinese, New Year's eve on Wednesday will include a temple fair visit, a family dinner,
and fireworks to welcome New Year's day on Thursday.

"New Year is mainly about family, being with your loved ones," said Chi. "So I will spend the festival with my parents."

Wang Hui, head of the Olympic organising committee's media department, said the Olympic show was aimed at letting the people experience the Games.

"Temple fairs are for ordinary folk to enjoy," she said. "Maybe they won't have a chance go to the real Games, so letting them experience the Olympics at the fair is a perfect combination."
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Children on rollerblades dressed as the Olympic mascots
cheer during Spring Festival celebrations on the eve of
the Lunar New Year in Beijing.

Drum rolls and dragon dances set off Lunar New Year
celebrations there as revellers welcomed an Olympic-
themed

 Year of the Rat.

(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)
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Chinese children dressed in Olympic-themed jump suits wave
to the crowd at the conclusion of a celebration at a park on
the eve of Chinese New Year on Wednesday Feb. 6, 2008 in
Beijing, China. Each year thousands of Chinese flock to
temples and parks to ring in the Chinese New Year, which is
based on the lunar calendar.

(AP Photo)
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A young visitor walks past a Chinese New Year decorat-
ed tea house at Yuyuan Garden, one of the most popular
tourist's attractions in town, Wednesday Feb. 6, 2008
in Shanghai, China.

February 7, 2008 starts of the 15-day Chinese New Year
celebration. More than 4 million people remained without
power Wednesday in storm-battered central China, as
families nationwide began gathering for the biggest
holiday of the year.

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A lion dance performer watches a cultural presentation to
celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year at Longtan Park
in Beijing February 6, 2008.

The lunar "Year of the Rat" begins on February 7 in China
and will also be celebrated by as many as 35 million over-
seas Chinese in cities across the globe.

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)
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Traditional performers wait before the start of a cultural pre-
sentation to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year at
Longtan Park in Beijing February 6, 2008. The lunar "Year of
the Rat" begins on February 7 in China and will also be cele-
brated by as many as 35 million overseas Chinese in cities
across the globe.

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)
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A child dressed as a mouse watches
a traditional performer spin a top
during a cultural presentation to cele-
brate the Chinese New Year at
Longtan Park in Beijing February 6,
2008.

The lunar "Year of the Rat" begins on
February 7 in China and will also be
celebrated by as many as 35 million
overseas Chinese in cities across the
globe.

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV (CHINA)
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A man prays with joss sticks at
Longhua Temple on Friday Feb.
8, 2008, on the second day of
the Chinese Lunar New Year,
in Shanghai, China. China's snow
crisis wound down just in time
for Thursday's Lunar New Year
holiday, after a striking and uni-
quely Chinese display of co-
mmunist mass mobilization, pro-
paganda and state control.
(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chi-
nese Premier Wen Jiabao has a dinner with college students
who can not go back home during Lunar New Year holidays
due to the snow disaster at the Jiangxi University of Finan-
ce and Economics in east China's Jiangxi Province
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008.
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A monk, in a yellow outfit, talks to prayers at
Jade Buddha Temple Thursday Feb. 7, 2008 in
Shanghai, China


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