Cold snap brings joy and beauty to south China

Updated: 2016-01-26 08:18

(Xinhua/CFP)

 

A man takes a photo of the snow fall at Youkong village, Xiuning county, Huangshan city in East China's Anhui province, Jan 25, 2016. The village saw rare ice fall when the temperature went as low as minus 10 degrees Celsius.[Photo/CFP]

Many in south China shivered over the weekend as a cold snap broke decades-old records and snow fell in some cities for the first time in years.

Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, was hit by its first snow in about five decades over the weekend.