A 40-meter-diameterpaper sky lantern,consisting of 62 small ones in two to four diameters long, rises up in the air with afire firecrackers inHongling village, Wanquan county in South China's Hainan province on Monday. It is alocal ritual ceremony to release the lantern to mark the Chinese Ghost Festival, which fell on Aug 10 in 2014. [Photo/IC]