Du Fu, one of China"s most renowned poets who lived 1,200 years ago, once wrote, "When will there be tens of thousands of houses, to shelter all the homeless and poor in this world?" These words reverberated in the minds of many Chinese this Spring Festival as their thoughts went out to survivors of the devastating earthquake that jolted southwest China"s Sichuan Province last May, wondering whether they had food and shelter to celebrate the most important festival in the Chinese calendar. The earthquake killed nearly 70,000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of houses in a flash. To find out how local people spent their first post-earthquake Spring Festival, Beijing Review sent reporters to Beichuan County and Dujiangyan City, which were the worst damaged areas.