At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
Tangyuan are sweet rice flour dumplings stuffed with ingredients such as sugar, nuts, rose petals, or bean paste, served in a traditional Chinese soup.
Thousands crowd every day down the narrow, beggar-lined passageway that runs alongside the baoli on their way to strewing rose petals on the holy man's tomb.
Mourners were seen crying as ambulances carrying the bodies of victims drove through the streets while colleagues showered the vehicles with rose petals.