People splash water on a man to celebrate the Water Splashing Festival in Jinghong City of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, yesterday. In China, the festival is celebrated by ethnic minority groups such as Dai, De’ang, Bulang and Achang to welcome the new year. During the festival, people gather along the roadsides and in public parks and squares armed with buckets and basins of water or carrying squirt guns to drench each other in wishes for good luck and a happy new year.Liu Xudong