Children attend activity to welcome coming Laba Festival (1/4)

Children learn to recognize the food materials of Laba porridge in the senic spot of Huqiu Mountain in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 17, 2013. Kindergarten Children together with their parents and teachers attended an activity to welcome the coming Laba Festival which falls on Jan. 19 this year. Laba festival, literally the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is considered the prelude of Chinese Spring Festival. (Xinhua/Hang Xingwei)