Chinese Celebrate the Lantern Festival

Farmers in Zhouzhuang, Zhejiang province, celebrate the Chinese Lantern Festival in their traditional way to pray for a good new year, March 4, 2007.

Hanging lanterns light up the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province, attracting many visitors for the Chinese Lantern Festival, March 4, 2007.

A girl and her mother look at a fabulous lantern in a park in Fuzhou city, southeast China's Fujian province, March 3, 2007.

Sparkling Shanghai Yuyuan Garden welcomes visitors for the Chinese Lantern Festival, March 3, 2007.

A father holds his daughter at the City God Temple, an extravagant tourist area in Shanghai, on the Chinese Lantern Festival, March 4, 2007.

2007-03-05