高樓低廈,人潮起伏,
名爭利逐,千萬家悲歡離合。

閑雲偶過,新月初現,
燈耀海城,天地間留我孤獨。

舊史再提,故書重讀,
冷眼閑眺,關山未變寂寞!

念人老江湖,心碎家國,
百年瞬息,得失滄海一粟!

徐訏《新年偶感》

2012年1月20日星期五

China's Spring Festival: mass movement (春運) - in pictures




China has started the 40-day Spring Festival peak travel season, with a total of 3.16 billion journeys expected to be made. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on 23 January and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon

Passengers at Hankou railway station in Wuhan
Passengers queue to buy tickets at a booth outside a railway station in Beijing

A man hangs Lunar New Year decorations at Yuyuan Garden, in central Shanghai
A passenger on a train at Shanghai's railway station

A security guard patrols as passengers queue up to buy bus tickets at Changsha South station, Hunan province
Decorative lanterns are hung on a tree ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Ditan Park in Beijing

A woman wipes her tears with her partner's scarf as they part at Beijing west railway station
Passengers board a train at Shanghai's railway station

Paramilitary policemen stand in formation as they watch passengers enter the Beijing west railway station
People queue to take trains home at Hankou railway station in Wuhan
Migrant workers return to their romote Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces for the Spring Festival