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[Metro & Sports]

• More than 43,000 people visited Beijing's Yonghegong, or the Lama Temple, to burn incense yesterday, the last day of the Spring Festival and the 15th day of the lunar calendar.
• According to local authorities nine hundred ships are jammed before a navigation lock of a reservoir in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region amid falling water levels caused by severe drought.
• Demolition of the run-down suburban community of Tangjialing in Haidian district, will begin today, leaving over 50,000 young residents facing an uncertain future.
• With this year's Winter Olympics coming to a close, many Chinese now have a new interest in exploring ice and snow activities in Beijing.
  

[China's Champion] 2010 Lantern Festival Lights Up China
The Spring Festival has come to an end here in China, culminating with the Lantern Festival on February 28. While the Chinese New Year's Eve has its own traditions such as eating dumplings or fish and setting off fireworks to celebrate, the last day of the holiday season also has its own special significance to Chinese families.

[Cultural Voyage] Folk Love Songs Getting Rejuvenated in Chinese Mountain Village
Those wishing for a break from the top 40 charts now have a different option. A love song sang deep in the mountains of Eastern China hundreds of years ago is now making a comeback.

[Tour Tips] Jianshui is located 220 kilometers south of Kunming. The climate here is pleasant, neither hot in the summer nor cold in the winter. Moreover, it is one of the earliest developed cities in southern Yunnan that enjoys the fame of being an ancient cultural city and an important gateway. Since the Yuan Dynasty, it was the political, cultural and communication center in southern Yunnan. And now Jianshui is actually developed into a county. It got the name because the basin used to be flooded every summer and autumn.

• Now introducing the next king of kung-fu - Huang Xiaoming.
• Director Chen Kaige's first open-air show Xi Yi is set to premiere on April 28 in the scenic city of Dali, Yunnan Province, with action choreographer Han Jianzhong revealing last week the action scenes of the show, better helping to form a clearer image of how Chen is going to present the production.
• Jacques Audiard's powerful prison drama A Prophet swept the board at the "Cesar" awards this weekend, picking up the best film, best actor and best director prizes at France's annual version of the Oscars.

[Strange News]

• A newlywed groom in New Delhi was accidentally shot dead by his uncle as he fired his gun in the air to celebrate the marriage.
• A real estate company behind this ambiguous advertisement has been promoting shop space sales in Xianyang, north China Shaanxi Province. But it is now the subject of an investigation for false advertising by the local Bureau of Industry and Com?merce after frequent public slings, arrows and jokes.
• A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles or $3,330 for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt.

[Real China] Gu Shengli, Bidding King of the Ditan Park Temple Fair
Temple fairs in Beijing were in full swing during the Spring Festival holiday. If you had visited the temple fair in Ditan Park, you would have seen one very popular booth selling grilled mutton and surrounded by numerous customers.