Folk customs of Spring Festival in C China
A family gather to have a family-reunion dinner outside their cave dwelling in Qucun Village of Shaanxian County, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 1, 2003. Different from the other parts of China in which people have family reunion dinner on the Chinese New Year's eve, people living in the central China region have the family banquet at the noon of the first day of the lunar month. Chinese people who live in the central China region have formed various traditions to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. (Xinhua/Wang Song)