Laba Festival marked around China

A staff serves a bowl of Laba porridge for a senior at Nanyuan Village of Taiping Township of Nanchang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 23, 2018. Seniors living alone gather to eat Laba porridge to celebrate Laba Festival. The Laba Festival, a traditional Chinese festival on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, fell on Jan. 24 this year. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)