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Hot soup for the shortest day
22/12/2008 11:04

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A waitress serves hot mutton soup in a restaurant in Nanchong City in Sichuan Province yesterday. Yesterday was the Winter Solstice. On this day when the daytime is shortest and sunshine is weakest, people in some parts of the country traditionally eat mutton in the hope of dispelling cold during the winter.—Xinhua