From People’s Daily Online:
It may have been the Lantern Festival yesterday, when the dumplings should be eaten and the fireworks scare away the evil spirits. Beijing saw the arrival of some other white stuff yesterday afternoon: Snow lots of it.
The last time the city was blanketed in snow was during the Lantern Festival in 1987.
It is the eighth time Beijing has been covered with snow during lantern festivities in half a century.
