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Chinese celebrate Lunar New Year, hope for a better 2009
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-26 08:24
The 32-year-old woman, an ethnic Qiang, said none of her relatives died in the quake but she lost her house. "We had had too much fear with the tremors last year; to pray the safety of our whole family is the best wish for the new year." In Lueyang County, Shaanxi Province, about 200,000 residents were affected by the Sichuan quake. Zhang Yueyin, in Guozhenjie Village, Lueyang, moved to her new house and replaced an old black and white TV with a color one. "With a government subsidy of 30,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan of bank loan, I built the new house," said Zhang. The villager said her husband would go to find work in cities shortly after the Spring Festival so as to return the loans as early as possible.
The Tibetans and Yi's family and shop staff held a dinner together to celebrate the Lunar New Year's eve. Spring Festival celebrations take various forms in different places. In the capital Beijing, dozens of temple fairs featuring cultural activities and folk customs shows began on Sunday. |
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