Beijing sparkles with festive garb to ring in Spring Festival
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Chang'an Avenue, Beijing's major thoroughfare, has been decorated with 242 red lanterns and 862 Chinese knots, to celebrate the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 10 this year.
"Each big red lantern on Chang'an Avenue measures 1.2 meters in diameter, 1.28 meters in height and weighs more than 10 kg. The Chinese knot is heavier, weighing more than 15 kg. It takes four people to i