Week-long Festival celebration gets started

Two children carry dumplings at a communal dinner to celebrate the Lunar New Year at a village in Daxing District of Beijing Feb. 6, 2008, the Lunar New Year's Eve. People all across the country are celebrating the most important Chinese festival. (Xinhua Photo)

Workers of Huaibei Power Company of Anhui Province make dumplings to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year Feb. 6, 2008. A great number of electricians worked through the festival to ensure power supply to the snow-plagued province, as people all across the country were celebrating the most important Chinese festival.[ (Xinhua Photo)

A visitor wears a '2008' sunglasses at a park during a cultural fair to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Beijing, Feb. 6, 2008, the Lunar New Year's Eve. People all across the country are celebrating the most important Chinese festival. (Xinhua Photo)

A train attendant plays the guitar for passengers on a train from Zunyi to Beijing, Feb. 6, 2008, the Lunar New Year's Eve. People all across the country are celebrating the most important Chinese festival. (Xinhua Photo)

Fireworks explode at a residential complex in Beijing during Lunar New Year celebrations, Feb. 6, 2008, the Lunar New Year's Eve. People all across the country are celebrating the most important Chinese festival. (Xinhua Photo)

Chinese actors perform the ceremony of worshipping heaven at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Feb. 6, 2008, during a cultural festival to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year. The ceremony of worshipping heaven was the most important national ceremony in ancient China held by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties at the Temple of Heaven every year. People all across the country are celebrating the most important Chinese festival. (Xinhua Photo)