A young boy shows his horse-shaped sugar figurine during the holiday of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, Jan. 31, 2014. The Spring Festival this year marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese zodiac that assigns one of 12 animals, either real or mythological, to each year. [Xinhua/Hang Xingwei]