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Flashing Sights
A meteor strikes through the skies at Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, on December 14. The Geminids meteor shower of 2021 reached its peak that day.
National Memorial
China’s national flag flew at half-mast in front of a darkly-dressed crowd as the country held its eighth national memorial ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre on December 13.
Despite the winter chill, thousands of people attended the ceremony in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, with white flowers on their lapels conveying their condolences.
The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the city on December 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed
