National festival underway with cherry blossoms in peak bloom

Updated: 2015-04-13 11:12

(chinadaily.com.cn)

National festival underway with cherry blossoms in peak bloom

The 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival is underway with blossoms currently in peak bloom. The festival commemorates the 1912 gift of three thousand cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington DC.[Photo by Wang Yu/chinadaily.com.cn]