TEMPLE FAIR IN BEIJING official

(0205 CR M09)TEMPLE FAIR IN BEIJING DATELINE: Feb. 5, 2011 LENGTH: 00:01:17 PKG INTRO A record number of people have visited the temple fairs held in the capital city of Beijing during the Spring Festival holiday. China Report has the story. PKG More than 1.4 million people visited Beijing's temple fairs between Wednesday to Friday, the first three days of China's week-long Spring Festival holiday, up 43 percent over the same period of last year. 0At temple fairs, visitors can get a glimpse of the traditional Chinese celebrations for the Lunar New Year, including lion dances, stilt walking, and old-fashioned street snacks. The temple fairs in the Ditan Park and the Longtan Park, both in downtown Beijing, were the most well known. The former hosted an average of 150,000 daily, and the latter 100,000 visitors. On Thursday, the first day of the Chinese lunar New Year, the Year of Rabbit, a record high of 235,000 people visited the temple fair held in the Ditan Park. Polic Powered by www.newslook.com Producer : Xinhua News Agency