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Celebrate Spring Equinox with 'Egg Standing' games

(People's Daily Online)    16:48, March 21, 2014
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Children play "Egg Standing" games in Pingjiang Experimental Kindergarten, Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 21, 2014. (CNSPHOTO/Hang Xingwei)

Spring Equinox is one of the 24 solar terms in Chinese lunar calendar. It falls on March 21 in 2014. People in China play "Egg Standing" games or hold "Egg Standing" contests to celebrate the day. It is said that the "Egg Standing" custom originated 4,000 years ago.

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(Editor:DuMingming、Liang Jun)

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