Slideshow: A Chinese Lunar New Year With Snow, Firecrackers, and a Market

For the first day of the Year of the Rat, people in China celebrated the Spring Festival Eve with firecrackers and shopping in rural markets. In the southern part of China, they welcomed the Year of the Rat with blizzards, which they haven’t experienced in 50 years.
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