Winter Fishing Cultural Festival Opens On Frozen Wolong Lake In Liaoning Province, Northeast China

Cooks make fish soup during the opening ceremony of Winter Fishing Cultural Festival at Wolong Lake, Kangping County, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Jan. 16, 2013. Performers here will hold an ancestor worship ritual and fish in traditional ways during the eight-day festival.

The first fish is caught from the frozen Wolong lake in the opening ceremony of Winter Fishing Cultural Festival in Kangping County, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Jan. 16, 2013. The traditional rituals of Liao Dynasty were performed during the eight-day festival; the ancient ways of fishing and fish banquets attracted many tourists in the cold winter.

Performers hold a fishing ritual during the opening ceremony of Winter Fishing Cultural Festival on frozen Wolong Lake, Kangping County, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Jan. 16, 2013.<Xinhua/Yang Qing>