City: Fragment Hill Name: Victor Ning latitude: 39.992373 longitude: 116.186454 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/639185506222163 Description: On the peak of Beijing's Fragrant Hills, visitors can write down their New Year’s wishes on small red wooden plaques. They then tie the plaques on tree branches to let the heavens know. Over time, the bare branches have become covered with these little plaques, which create a festive winter scenery. Photo: |
City: Chongqing Name: Wang Mengzhen latitude: 29.561624 longitude: 106.556796 Link: http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/02/11/3685s916488.htm Description: A bangbang porter is carrying luggage for passengers in Chongqing's North Railway Station on Feb 11, 2016. Business has boomed during the Spring Festival. Photo: |
City: Wutai Mt. Name: Zhang Peng latitude: 39.08635 longitude: 113.563701 Link: http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/02/12/3441s916547.htm Description: China's spring festival is now in its fifth day. Monks at temples in Wutai Mountain in northern China celebrate the holiday in their own way. Photo: |
City: Beijing Name: Yu Yachen latitude: 39.954477 longitude: 116.415063 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/639843382823042 Description: Is it a monkey? It is a Hairy Monkey, an exquisite folk handicraft unique to Beijing. As the Year of the Monkey arrives, Jiang Shouyu from Beijing has created a series of hairy monkeys with the theme of the New Year celebration and traditional customs in the capital city. Photo: |
City: Taiyuan Name: Zhang Peng latitude: 37.867548 longitude: 112.545997 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/639483526192361 Description: Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, is China's most significant holiday of the year, when families get together to celebrate. People who live in rural areas continue their traditional celebrations for Spring Festival. Photo: |
City: Meishan Name: Wang Mengzhen latitude: 30.073563 longitude: 103.849648 Link: http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/02/13/4201s916620.htm Description: A traditional Chinese wedding was held in a village of Meishan city, Sichuan province on February 12, 2016. The joyful ceremony usually consists of some complex but interesting traditional rituals. This includes the exquisite dressing procedure, eating Tangyuan (glutinous rice ball), welcoming the bride in a bridal sedan, the bowing process, and serving tea to each others' parents. Photo: |
City: Pingyao Name: Li Shaotong latitude: 37.210579 longitude: 112.180985 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/640995902707790 Description: A retail shop was also captured by camera in Pingyao County in north China's Shanxi Province. A couplet and four Chinese characters signifying prosperity and wealth are hung by the gate. Very few people visited the retail store during the Spring Festival. Therefore, the shop seems a little bit deserted. Photo: |
City: Chengdu Panda Name: Wu Tong latitude: 30.739894 longitude: 104.146926 Link: Description: This Chinese New Year marked a new beginning for a group of 3 month old pandas as they met the public for the very first time at the Panda Research Base in Chengdu, Sichuan. Tourists from all over China and from abroad clamor to get a glimpse of the adorable baby pandas as the youngsters clumsily climb trees, fall over and captivate onlookers with their cuteness. Meanwhile, the base’s Giant Pandas don’t know what all the fuss is about as they look on whilst eating bamboo, and the much smaller Red Pandas run about amongst the feet of the many tourists as they realize that lunchtime as arrived. Photo: |
City: Beijing Name: Liang Tao latitude: 39.907121 longitude: 116.35741 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/641324779341569 Description: Many important festivals in China are marked with food. Spring Festival is not just one day, rather it encompasses an extended period of time. It starts with a big dinner on new year's eve, followed by the making and eating of jiaozi (boiled dumplings) during the first meal of the new year, and finally with the eating of yuanxiao, sweet dumplings made with glutinous rice flour, on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. Photo: |
City: Chengdu Name: Stuart Wiggin latitude: 30.664618 longitude: 104.059594 Link: Description: A huge crowd of people throngs in and out of Jinli Ancient Street as they attend Chengdu’s most popular temple fair during the Spring Festival period. The traditional red lanterns most commonly seen during the New Year period are present but are joined by an array of colors, as row upon row of multicolored lanterns illuminate the pathways down which people slowly push past one another as they work their way towards the food sellers, in order to taste Sichuan’s local cuisine. But for real authenticity, tourists and locals alike eat spicy Sichuan hotpot, accompanied by symbols of good fortune, such as the character ‘fu’, meaning luck, which is often turned upside down so as to symbolize increased fortune for the year ahead. Photo: |
City: Mohe Name: Guo Jing latitude: 52.976344 longitude: 122.550200 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/641966445944069 Description: Residents of China's northernmost Mohe County usually spend their Spring Festival or Chinese New Year according to the lunar calendar, in freezing cold conditions. To while away the hours, they often make use of the seemingly inexhaustible supply of snow and ice to create amazing sculptures, which attract tourists from far and wide. Photo: |
City: Hangzhou Name: Nick Lanigan latitude: 30.244708 longitude: 120.143043 Link: Description: West Lake Photo: |
City: Beijing Name: Lu Meng latitude: 39.945389 longitude: 116.469183 Link: https://www.facebook.com/chinaplusnews/posts/642161515924562 Description: Not all the migrant workers could make it back home this Spring Festival. Those from Heilongjiang province could still celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in the North-eastern Chinese (Dongbei) way in Beijing downtown’s village commune-like restaurant. Photo: |
City: Lijiang Name: Zhang Qizhi latitude: 26.877508 longitude: 100.227583 Link: Description: Annual temple fair at Gaozhai Village, Jiuhe Township, Lijiang city, Yunnan Province. Held on the 13th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, mainly by the Bai ethnic group. Photo: |