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Colossus candles lighted to usher in Spring Festival

English.news.cn   2010-02-07 17:16:33 FeedbackPrintRSS
 
Two monks ignite the colossus propitious candle, inside the Hanshan Temple, a thousand-year-old prestigious Buddhist temple in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 6, 2010. A total of 23 pairs of 1.8-m-high super propitious candles, capable of sustaining up to 3 months, are lighted in the Hanshan Temple to beef up the merry festival atmosphere for ushering in the new Spring Festival of the year of tiger. (Xinhua/Wang Jianzhong)

 
Four monks ignite the colossus propitious candle, inside the Hanshan Temple, a thousand-year-old prestigious Buddhist temple in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Wang Jianzhong)


 

Four monks ignite the colossus propitious candles, inside the Hanshan Temple, a thousand-year-old prestigious Buddhist temple in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 6, 2010. (Xinhua/Wang Jianzhong)

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