Tibetan residents perform celebrating traditional new year, in Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Diqing, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on February 7, 2009. Tibetans danced and sang celebrating the new year according to the local Tibetan calendar which falls on February 25. [Xinhua]

A Tibetan woman prepares to perform the Repa dance, a traditional Tibetan dance, in Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Diqing, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on February 7, 2009. [Xinhua]