Wed, February 03, 2010
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People joyfully greet Spring Festival in E China

2010-02-03 07:13:51 GMT2010-02-03 15:13:51 (Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

A woman holds up the impromptu calligraphic brushworks of Spring Festival Couplets to usher in the year of tiger on traditional Chinese symbol of animals marking the 12 Earthly Branches, at Baihuacun Community of Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/You Nian)

Senior and pupil calligraphers improvise together the brushworks of Spring Festival Couplets to usher in the year of tiger on traditional Chinese symbol of animals marking the 12 Earthly Branches, at Baihuacun Community of Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/You Nian)

A pupil holds up own handmade paper cutting in vivid artistic patterns to usher in the year of tiger on traditional Chinese symbol of animals to mark the 12 Earthly Branches, at Baihuacun Community of Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/You Nian)

A man holds up the impromptu calligraphic brushworks of Spring Festival Couplets to usher in the year of tiger on traditional Chinese symbol of animals marking the 12 Earthly Branches, at Baihuacun Community of Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/You Nian)

A group of pupils hold high their own handmade paper cutting in vivid artistic patterns to usher in the year of tiger on traditional Chinese symbol of animals to mark the 12 Earthly Branches, in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/You Nian)

Local calligraphers and pupils are organized to take part in an activity of brushing Spring Festival Couplets and scissoring the artistic patterns of paper-cutting of tiger for local citizens in a joyful greeting of the new year's advent.

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