People celebrate 'Sanyuesan' festival in Yunnan

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Every year on the third day of the third month on Chinese lunar calendar (which falls on April 18 this year), people in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province, hold a special spring gathering at the city's Xishan Mountain. The festive event is called Sanyuesan in Chinese, which literally means the lunar date of the day.

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Today marks this year's Sanyuesan festival, which will be celebrated with music, dance, traditional operas and demonstrations of local intangible cultural heritages, such as sugar painting, paper-cutting, embroideries and carving. Local people will dress up in ethnic costumes to celebrate yet another day of cultural feast.

Editor: John Li