Traditional Lantern Festival in Jinyün county.

Photography by the Rat (Lü Xiao Hui  ) in the mountains of his county. Read about the Lantern Festival.

This is the road to the remote mountain village .

'Dui Lian' .. the traditional New Year couplets the Chinese put on each side of their doors.
The ones on red paper are this years, last years couplets can still be seen on white beneath.

Mud and rock walls, typical of this kind of village and quite old.

Another wall, I guess the Rat is pretty fascinated by these.

Preparing for the Dragon dance.

Every household sends a representative to the dance, who will be in charge of one part of the Dragon,
and they'll write words of celebration and prayers on behalf of their families on that part.

The dance is about to start, the villagers make the dragon offer respect to Buddha and set of firecrackers.

And here they go ...

The Dragon coils through the village streets.

A smaller dragon.

The spectators. The Dragon Dance has a history of 1300 years, or since the Tang Dynasty.

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