Chinese open holiday with joy (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-05-02 11:19 From north to south, west to
east, Chinese people kicked off the International Labor Day, also the first day
of the holiday week, in various ways of entertainment and celebration.
Over 20,000 people from across the country gathered at the Tian'anmen Square
early on Saturday morning waiting to see the ceremony of the national flag
hoisting.
Yang Huaibao, a 23-year-old migrant worker who has worked in Beijing for four
years, came to the square at 4:00 am.
"I have never realized that I am a worker until lately. The city now has
recognized our contribution to its development," he said holding a small
national flag in the hand.
In east China's Anhui Province, five persons, quarantined due to close
contact with the SARS patient surnamed Song, received flowers and fruits from
the hospital in Hefei, the provincial capital, as gifts for the Labor Day.
They are in stable condition and will soon be back home if everything goes
smoothly, said Jin Yulian, head of the hospital.
Ten new couples held a group wedding ceremony Saturday at a park in Dalian
city of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Together with them, 99 old couples, from cities including Dalian, Tianjin,
Shenyang and Shanghai, reviewed their wedding ceremony.
"I had never thought of wearing such a beautiful wedding dress when I was a
young bride," said Song Caiqin, a 63-year-old woman who has been married for 43
years, "People have a better and happier life than before."
Yu Xiaoming and her U.S. husband David Moreno mixed their hairs with each
other and put them into a bottle and dropped it into the sea like the other nine
young couples.
The 27-year-old bride said, "I would like to hold the hand of my husband
until both of us grow old."
In Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, local residents
were welcomed by 4 million plants of colorful tulips Saturday.
A tulip fair opened here Saturday displaying 4 million plants of some 60
species of tulips in an area of 70,000 square meters and during the six-day fair
dancing shows, dramas and trading fair will be staged.
When the Labor Day evening fell in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu
Province, a symphony named Ode to Peace debuted at a local concert and moved all
the audience.
Chinese musicians from Nanjing, Hong Kong and Taiwan played together the
symphony written to mark the Nanjing Massacre that took place some 67 years ago.
"With the symphony, I want to show the strong calling for peace among Chinese
people," said Zhao Jiping, its composer. It took him three years and three
months to finish the symphony.
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