Citizens appreciate a large lantern "a pig model carries a Chinese cabbage" at a lantern festival in a community of Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 11, 2007. The lantern festival opened Sunday with 20 sets of large lanterns and thousands of red lanterns, to greet the traditional Chinese Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 18. (Xinhua /Lu Chuanquan)

Citizens appreciate a large lantern "dragon boat" at a lantern festival in a community of Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 11, 2007. (Xinhua /Lu Chuanquan)

Citizens appreciate a large lantern "pig" at a lantern festival in a community of Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 11, 2007. (Xinhua /Lu Chuanquan)