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- DRAGON ON: Visitors experience fantastic carnivalesque shows representing Beijing folk culture and don festive dragon hats at the temple fair in Ditan Park (Temple of Earth) in downtown Beijing, opening from January 22 to 29 (XINHUA)
- PLAY WITH ICE: Visitors skate and ride ice sleds in Houhai, a man-made lake in Beijing's Shichahai subdistrict, on January 27, the fifth day of Spring Festival. Houhai is a must-see place for tourists seeking to view pagodas and the hutong alleyways of old Beijing (WANG XIBAO)
- SWEET CRAFT: At a temple fair in north China's Tianjin Municipality, caramelized sugar treats appeal to many visitors, for whom watching traditional folk artisans delicately handcrafting the confections is a feast for the eyes (ZHAO HUIXIANG)
- CHINESE 'DRAGON': A visitor gazes at orange tiles emblazoned with stylized calligraphic renderings of the Chinese character long (dragon) at the Sichuan Museum in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province on January 25 (XUE YUBIN)
- LIVING ZODIAC: An elaborate lifelike dragon lantern is displayed in the square of Yu Garden, Shanghai, on January 25 (XU ZHENGKUI)
- WARM WINTER HOLIDAY: Surrounded by sea and palm trees, tourists enjoy their vacations in Sanya, a resort city in south China's Hainan Province (LI FANGFANG)
- ANCIENT CHARM: On January 24, a 600-year-old path attracts visitors to Qingyan Town, in Guizhou Province (MA LI)
- FAMILY DINNER: On January 22, Chinese New Year's Eve, families of migrant workers and their children have dinner in Baisha Village in the city of Liuzhou in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, far from their hometown in neighboring Guizhou Province. Many migrant workers struggle to return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival to celebrate family reunions (HUANG XIAOBANG)
- BRING LUCK HOME: On January 18, consumers buy the necessary festive decorations for good luck, including paintings and chunlian, or spring couplets in Changji City, in northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (LI CHENG)
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