NE China celebrates Lantern Festival
                
  
                
                 2016-02-22
              
The city of Jilin, in Jilin province held a culture event to celebrate the Lantern Festival, which comes on the 15th day of the first lunar month, or Feb?22 this year.
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 Culture specialist describing the Lantern Festival's origin and development. [Photo by Sun Xin/asianewsphoto.com]  | 
The event?brought hundreds of people to an event that gave them a chance to learn more about the Lantern Festival and its history and development, and how to make glutinous rice balls, a traditional treat for the celebration, on Feb 17.
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 People learning how to make glutinous rice balls from a pastry cook.  | 
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 A child is trying to roll rice balls in glutinous rice flour with help from parents.  | 




 
 
 