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A Chinese vendor wears a rooster hat as he smokes a cigarette at his souvenir stall at a fair at Temple of Earth, on the eve of Chinese New Year February 8, 2005 in Beijing, China. Chinese started February 8, to celebrate the New Year of the Rooster. (Photo by Andrew Wong/Getty Images)
A Chinese Catholic pastes pictures of Pope John Paul II on a wall at a state-sanctioned church on April 4, 2005 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
Swimmers pose for pictures during a ceremony to launch the collective winter swimming held to celebrate the New Year on January 1, 2006 in Shenyang of Liaoning Province, northeast China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
Couples pose for pictures in front of some 770,000 paper cranes decorated on the gate of Zhonghuamen Gate Castle during a ceremony to mark the Qixi Festival on July 30, 2006 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The paper cranes symbolizing the birds of love, were made by residents from 11 communities. Qixi Festival, the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day, falls on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month on July 31. The festival originates from a romantic legend of lovers, the cowherd Niulang and fairy Zhinu, who were separated by the Supreme God. Story says that the couple reunites across the Milky Way once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
College students dressed as the Red Army soldiers pose for pictures after evening to mark the 70th anniversary of the successful completion of the Long March, after their performance on October 23, 2006 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The Long March was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1936, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army. The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and covered about 9,600 km (5,961 miles). (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A bride poses for pictures in front of an aquarium in the Nanjing Underwater World during a collective wedding ceremony January 20, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. According to state media, annually, around 10 million couples get married in China, who spend about 250 billion yuan (USD 32.47 billion) in the related services, including banquet celebration, wedding rings, dressings, souvenir pictures and honeymoon trips. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A woman and her daughter pose for pictures in front of a billboard with residents' autographs during a ceremony to support an application to list Spring Festival on the register of the world's intangible cultural heritage on February 11, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The proposal is launched by a folk art professor of Nanjing University. The Spring Festival, or the Chinese lunar New Year, is the most important holiday in China. According to local media, traditional Chinese cultural practices have declined due to younger generation's neglect and the impact of western cultures. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A contestant dressed as heroine Lin Daiyu attends an event to select performers for the upcoming spring festival temple fair at the Grand View Garden on February 13, 2007 in Beijing, China. The park is an imitation landscape garden based on the one in China's most famous literary works [The Dream of the Red Mansion]. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
Chinese military officers play a game during an indoor temple fair to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year on February 14, 2007 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)
A tourist poses for pictures with a performance artist during a new year temple fair held at the Chaoyang Park on February 18, 2007 in Beijing, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A European acrobat performs at the Chaoyang Park Foreign Temple Fair on February 20, 2007 in Beijing, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A young boy wears a pig mask during the lantern fair at the Confucius Temple on February 21, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A young boy wears a pig mask during the lantern fair at the Confucius Temple on February 21, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A senior citizen sits beside offerings of a pig and goat during a ceremony to pray for a good harvest at Yaxi Village February 23, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
Xiao Yang, singer from an obese girl band named [Qianjin], which in the Chinese means girl or 500 kg, as the four members' total weight is over 500 kg (about 1,102 pounds), looks at photo samples before taking pictures for the band's album in a studioApril 3, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Xiao Yang alone weighs about 180 kg (396 pounds). The girls make a living by performing in shows. An official from the Ministry of Health revealed that more than 200 million Chinese people are overweight. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A young man takes pictures of an animation fan performing Cosplay during the Cosplay Carnival on May 2, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. The animation audience in China is estimated to comprise of 100 million teenagers under the age 18, accounting for an animation market of 20 billion yuan (about USD 2.6 billion). (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
Students pose for pictures with a sculpture during a graduation ceremony at Hohai University on June 12, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
A young child poses for a photo amongst giant Coca-Cola bottles printed with images of Chinese sports stars during the Coke Bottle Design Contest on December 15, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
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