Spring Festival 2006

Spring Festival is Chinese New Year. Like Christmas, but with a few twists. Everyone had plenty to eat and good wishes for the coming year.
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The filling for dumplings. Meat and dandelion greens.
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Final mixing of the filling.
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Families always make the dumplings together, we're no different.
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How to seal a dumpling and make it pretty.
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Dad is the rolling expert, very fast.
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Hanhan's first dumpling! How does it look?
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The dinner fireworks. There are 10,000 in this roll.
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The fuse is lit!
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10,000 firecrackers - 3 seconds
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The debris is 4 stories high!
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Tada!
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Looking for duds.
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All clear.
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Setting the table for the big dinner to come.
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Xiaohua's dishes begin to arrive. Everybody pitches in.
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Mom's dishes add to the dinner.
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Even more food to complete the feast, there are more than 30 dishes to sample!
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Enjoy!
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Even Ben is doing his part!
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Yum! There is simply TOO much to eat, but we try.
The Zhang Family in action!
Browsing the New Year Market.
Who can resist books for 1 RMB? This one is Mao's Quotes.
Dad at the park.
Hanhan and Dad at the lake.
Mom and Hanhan on the beach.
With the peach flower.
So calm it looks like a mirror.
A boat ride.
Rear view.
Zoom!
All alone, strange in China.
See the steel mill in the background?
Gary's lucky flower.