Laba Festival celebrated at nursing home in Hebei

A volunteer feeds Laba porridge to an elderly woman at a nursing home in Anping, north China's Hebei Province, on the Laba Festival on Jan. 13, 2019. The Laba Festival, literally the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, is considered a prelude to the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year. (Xinhua/Li Xiaoguo)