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Mobile bookstore in Douai, Picardy, France A well-cooked Stephen King, please!  For lovers of reading Today's photo shows "La Baraque aux livres" (a nod to the emblematic french fries huts of the region), a traveling bookstore that circulates in the streets of Douai.  The owner of this second-hand bookshop located at 7 rue Léon Gambetta in Douai decided in 2016 to become mobile and go directly to meet the locals to create even more proximity with his customers.  La Baraque aux Livres mobile offers second-hand books of all kinds, from art and history books to comics, manga, novels and paperback books, all carefully selected and sorted.  If you go through Douai, try to catch the bookmobile!

Today is “Hina Festival”. “Hina Doll” It is a spring festival originally transmitted from China as "Kami". I t is called "peach festival" because it is performed at the time when peach blossoms bloom ... Originally, before the Heian period (almost 1,000 years back), it was performed regardless of gender in the same way as the Dango festival, but it gradually became a girl's festival. The custom of this day is to display dolls on a red carpet. The dolls with dresses of Emperor and Empress are placed at the top and the ladies with ministers are in lower rows of the shelf. It is said that the ebb and flow of the evil to the dolls and the doll play of the girls were linked. The Japanese are a bit superstitious here. They believe that if you're a girl and fail to take the dolls out of the shelf right after the festival, no one is going to marry you for a long period of time.  So hurry up girls!  Put the dolls away! ( © yoshi0511 / Shutterstoc)

Canadian flags are printed at the Flags Unlimited facility in Barrie, Ont.

"Otafuku mask", Fuchu, Tokyo

New Year decorations and hangings, China

Lunar New Year Celebrations in Beijing, 2020

Chinese new year lanterns in China Town.

Red apple on a broken branch in winter, Coburg, Bavaria, Germany.

"Lion Dance", Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture. The Lion Dance was started in China and travel to the Southeast Asia. In Japan ,  t his is Gifu, Hachiman-cho, Gujo City.  It is a town known for Gujo dance.  The lion dance was filmed in spring, not New Year's.  The lion dance appears every year at the “Taikagura” held at the Gujo Hachiman Spring Festival in April.