People taste Laba porridge to celebrate Laba Festival across China

Sanitation workers eat laba porridge at a community in Beilun District of Ningbo City, east China's Zhejiang Province, 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/Jiang Xiaodong)