Un homme chinois locaux transporte ses prises après la pêche dans un étang boueux pour célébrer l'étang-clearing festival à Xixi Wetland Park à Hangzhou, ville
A local Chinese man is hauling his catch after fishing in a muddy pond to celebrate the pond-clearing festival at Xixi Wetland Park in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 9 November 2014. In what must have been a dark day for fish, locals in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou celebrated their traditional pond-clearing festival on Sunday (9 November 2014) by storming an unfortunate pond in mass, wielding nets, buckets, and other implements of destruction. Chinese news portal NetEase reports that this assault is a yearly tradition for locals around the Xixi Wetland, located outside of Hangzhou. The higher purpose of the massacre is to clear and drain ponds for winter in order to remove silt and keep the water clean. The lower purpose is that it seems like great fun unless you happen to have gills. The pond didn't go out without a fight though, and soon the hunters became the hunted.