The 39th Pengsheng Tongken Munao Zongge Festival kicked off on Feb 5, in Jinghan township, Longchuan county of Southwest China’s Yunnan province. Tens of thousands of Jinpo people, young and old, danced together in their holiday best to the magnificent sound of gongs and drums to celebrate Munao Zongge, the ethnic group’s biggest festival of the year. To this day, …
BERLIN — Carnival revelers in the western Germany city of Cologne were lining up Thursday to show proof of their COVID-19 vaccinations before they could begin the start of the outdoors celebrations — after a hiatus due to the pandemic last year. Despite strict pandemic rules, the start of the carnival season was overshadowed by a coronavirus infection of Cologne’s …
