Artist Qu Lei performs magic tricks during the "Cultures of China, Festival of Spring" gala to celebrate Chinese lunar New Year for overseas Chinese, in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 11, 2017.
During the Lantern Festival, besides eating the iconic treat yuanxiao (glutinous rice balls), it's also a tradition to go out at night to enjoy lantern shows.
People perform dragon dance in the flames of firecrackers in Binzhou township of Binyang county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Feb 7, 2017.
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, this year is the Year of Rooster. The rooster is a common animal and has appeared in many paintings. It is not only depicted by many Chinese painters, but also emerges in Western artwork. Let's take a look at roosters in Western art.
This is my fourth time visiting his hometown and the first time as his wife. We got our marriage license last year, a day before we went back to Beijing so there wasn't much time for celebration besides a shot of baijiu and congratulations all around.
As the Year of the Rooster is here, let's look at some fabulous artworks with roosters depicted by Chinese painters.
Samples from the collections held by 10 major Chinese museums have been showcased at Frankfurt's Paperworld fair in Germany, in the first Chinese group show at the internationally-famed exhibition.
A record 6.15 million trips were made by Chinese mainland tourists to overseas destinations during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, which ended on Thursday, according to the China National Tourism Administration.
Chinese cinemas took 3.347 billion yuan (487 million U.S. dollars) in ticket sales during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, setting a record high, according to the film administration Friday.
Photo taken on Feb 4, 2017, shows lanterns lit up during the Spring Festival at Wangcheng Park in Luoyang, Central China's Henan province.
People perform dragon dance at a temple fair at Kowloon Park in Hong Kong, Feb 4, 2017.
Members with the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble perform Rhythms of Carpathian Basin during a Spring Festival gala named "China and Hungary hand in hand" in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb 3, 2017.
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