• HUMAN DAY
  Children attired in traditional costume read poems of Du Fu, a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), at the Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on February 25.
  
  It is the seventh day of the first lunar month, also the “Renri” which literally means Human Day in Chinese. According to Chinese legend, the goddess Nyuwa created the world and animals during the first six days, after which humans were created. It is a tradition for citizens in Chengdu to visit the Du Fu Thatched Cottage on Human Day (JIANG HONGJING)
• WHITE NEW YEAR
  Tourists enjoy snow view in Binhe Park of Daxing District in Beijing on February 20. Beijing welcomed its first snowfall of the Chinese Lunar New Year on February 19 (CHENG TINGTING)
• FLOURISHING IN SPRING
  Swaths of oilseed rape flowers in full bloom in Luoping, Yunnan Province, on February 25 (CHEN HAINING)
• GREAT CHANNEL
  Carrying 64 TEUs of containers, the first Madrid-Yiwu freight train arrives in Yiwu, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on February 22.
  
  Yiwu is known for having China’s largest wholesale market for consumer goods. The rail service between Yiwu and Madrid, Spain, was formally launched on November 18, 2014 (GONG XIANMING)