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Dongguan holds water-pouring festival

Dongguan holds water-pouring festival

Write: Barber [2011-05-20]
Tags: folk art

Dongguan holds water-pouring festival

The opening ceremony

An annual Labor-Selling Festival was held at Dongkeng Township of Dongguan on March 6.

Various amusement and cultural activities were held, including the most popular water pouring carnival, a large-scale opening ceremony, lion-dance performances, folk art and cultural performances and cuisine fair which boast local cuisines in Dongkeng as well as from other parts of China.

Dongguan holds water-pouring festival

Cultural performances from Tumushuke

To make this year's festival special, the organizer had also invited some cultural performances from Tumushuke, a sub-prefecture-level city in the northern part of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Dongguan city was assigned by Guangdong provincial government last year to provide financial support to Tumushuke.

Dongguan holds water-pouring festival

The water pouring carnival