People across China greet upcoming Spring Festival
Thousands of locals and Chinese people attended the 2017 Happy Chinese New Year event in Hungary, a temple fair in Budapest on Jan 21.
China's garden city has long lured travelers with its historical horticulture and crisscrossing canals. But visitors who stay three days discover more than Suzhou's numerous nicknames suggest. Erik Nilsson explores the metropolis.
Canada Post has given Lunar New Year celebrants something to crow about: two Year of the Rooster stamps.
China Post Group Co will release a new set of rooster-themed stamps to celebrate the Year of the Rooster based on the Chinese zodiac.
When Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival with decorations, annual reunion dinners or fireworks, Chinese painters take up their brushes to record such scenes. Scenes of Spring Festival are always popular themes of Chinese painting, especially of children during the holiday. Let's have a look at some Spring Festival paintings by Chinese artists, featuring traditional motifs of the Chinese New Year.
Students from the School of Life Science, Liaocheng University, volunteer to raise public awareness on environmental protection, calling for spending a cleaner, quieter and safer Spring Festival by lighting less fireworks, on Jan 14 at a local park in Liaocheng, Shandong province.
Instead of feeling sad about the losing Spring Festival traditions, I would rather look on the bright side of this social transition.
A Chinese New Year concert was held in Vienna, Austria, on Jan 15, marking the start of 2017 Happy Chinese New Year celebrations in the country.
Citizens and tourists view the lights decoration for the upcoming Chinese lunar new year in Macao, South China, Jan 23, 2017.
A Chinese opera gala was held in Toronto to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year. Consul-general Xue Bing from the Consulate General of China in Toronto and about 600 government officials and representatives from China and Canada attended the gala on Jan 15.
Legend has it that a god beckoned all animals to bid him farewell before his departure from Earth. Only 12 of them, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig arrived, with each given a place of honor in a year based on the order of arrival. Why is there no cat? It's a pity for cat lovers
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