The Third Beijing Dragon Boat Culture Festival kicked off at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park over the weekend. Visitors were treated to a whole series of cultural folk displays, dragon and lion dances a cultural heritage bazaar and three days of dragon boat races at the Olympic water sports venue.
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White Cloud Temple in Beijing
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Chinese New Year preparations
Beijing residents preparing for the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, which starts this weekend
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Lingyin Temple offers free Laba porridge
Laba is the eighth day of the twelfth month in the lunar Chinese calendar. The day is observed as it heralds the approaching of the Spring Festival, or the lunar New Year. This year's Laba falls on Jan. 5. An old custom on the day is having Laba congee which contains rice, corns, beans and nuts. Lingyin Temple in the eastern city of Hangzhou has offered 300,000 bowls of Laba porridge for free.
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Kid prays at Guangji Temple 广济寺 in Beijing
A bundled up little kid prays early in the morning in Beijing on Feb 11, 2007