Another Spring Festival, Another Ditan Park (地坛公园) Temple Fair (庙会), II: Year of the Ox (牛年)

Since 2009 is the year of the ox in Chinese zodiac, a friendly blown up cow greeted masses as they entered Ditan Park for this year's Temple Fair. In keeping with the ox spirit, many people, such as the vendor in the photo below, wore little cow horns. And these are red-colored not to make them look like satanic horns, but because Chinese people believe that red (红) is an especially lucky color.

The Chinese characters used in this post, along with their Romanized spelling (Pinyin) and tones are listed below. A number 1 indicates that the character has a flat tone, a number 2, a rising tone, a number 3, a falling rising tone, a number 4, a falling tone, and a number 5, a neutral tone.

地坛公园 (di4tan2gong1yuan2).
庙会 (miao3hui4).
牛年 (niu2nian2).
红 (hong2).