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      Celebrations across China begin for Mid-Autumn Festival

      2024-09-14 17:28 Last Updated At:18:07

      People across China are celebrating in diverse ways the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival which falls on September 17 this year.

      A well-preserved traditional custom, "burning a brick tower," also a national intangible cultural heritage, has been staged in Ji'an City, east China's Jiangxi Province.

      Every year, people from Jiaxi Village build a tower with bricks and tiles, and fill it with straws, firewood and tree leaves. They light the fire at the bottom of the tower, and the flames pour out of the tower immediately, lighting up the sky.

      Locals usually admire the moon and eat mooncakes while enjoying the fire to celebrate the festival.

      "Every year, I go back to my hometown here to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the traditional way, which brings me a great sense of happiness," said Zhan Danwen, a local villager. For hundreds of years, picking fruits and vegetables has been one of the activities for Tujia ethnic people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, with a good blessing of harvest for the year.

      This year in Jianshi County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province, tourists joined the celebration of locals by picking eggplants, chili peppers and corns in the garden, with torches lighting the night sky.

      Located in Xinzhou city in north China's Shanxi Province, the Mount Wutai Scenic Spot saw soaring numbers of tourists from Aug 22 to Sept 7, an increase of 22 percent year on year.

      The Mid-Autumn Festival is a significant traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the night when the moon reaches its fullest and brightest on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.

      During the festival, family members would come together, share mooncakes while admiring the moon, and light up lanterns to enjoy the happiness of family reunion.

      Celebrations across China begin for Mid-Autumn Festival

      Celebrations across China begin for Mid-Autumn Festival

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      Israel envoy denies discussions with UN on enabling Gaza aid deliveries

      2025-05-16 23:13 Last Updated At:23:37

      Permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations (UN) Danny Danon on Thursday denied that any discussions had occurred between Israel and the UN regarding delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.

      Danon made these remarks at the UN headquarters in response to a query from a China Central Television (CCTV) reporter about the ongoing failure to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

      Israel blocked the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza on March 2, following the end of the first phase of a January ceasefire deal with Hamas. It resumed attacks on Gaza on March 18.

      With no food, no supplies, and no relief in sight, Gazans have been enduring a relentless fight for survival.

      In response to mounting international condemnation, Israel has proposed that its military take over the distribution of aid - a move widely criticized by the international community.

      Briefing a Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher noted that the UN has met for over 12 times with the Israeli authorities regarding the latter's proposed aid distribution model, yet no solution had been found.

      Danon, however, stated that no discussions have taken place in recent weeks regarding the issue.

      "I don't know about that. Actually I listened to Mr. Fletcher's remarks at the Security Council the other day, and I can tell you that he visited Israel but he had no discussion about that fund because it was way back and in the last few weeks there was no dialogue about that. I would expect UN officials to engage when they want to speak about issues they know how to reach us, they know how to reach the U.S. mission. We are here to engage," he said.

      "They got some information from the media, I assume. But I think they should look into that and to realize that if they want to be involved, that is the way to be involved," he added, reiterating that the UN has not reached out.

      In response to Danon's denial, the United Nations reaffirmed its position, standing by the public statement released by Fletcher.

      "I heard what he said, and we stand by what Mr. Fletcher has said," Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for UN Secretary-General noted later on the day, commenting on Danon's statement.

      "Mr. Fletcher gave the details," he continued.

      Israel envoy denies discussions with UN on enabling Gaza aid deliveries

      Israel envoy denies discussions with UN on enabling Gaza aid deliveries

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