Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese people. The festival has a history of 4,000 years in China and its celebration has spread to the world in recent years.

With the upcoming the Year of the Monkey on Feb 8, 2016, Just Share It - Happy Chinese New Year global online photo contest 2016 is being launched. Chinaculture.org invites you to share your photos of Chinese New Year celebrations all over the world. The photos will be graded and all the nominees will be awarded certificates of honor and paid remuneration accordingly.

Who

Anyone who is interested in Chinese culture and wants to share photos of the Chinese New Year.

What

1. All the photos are welcome, but the theme should be Chinese New Year celebrations. The images should show the programs and activities of Happy Chinese New Year (a worldwide celebration hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the PRC and other Chinese authorities) all over the world or capture the scene of people enjoying the Spring Festival overseas. The images should vividly depict the happy atmosphere of Chinese New Year celebrations, showing the influence of the festival abroad.

Note: Highlights of 2016 Happy Chinese New Year programs

2. Photographs must be of an event outside the Chinese mainland (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and all foreign countries), and the photographer can be of any nationality.

3. All the images must be real, not doctored or Photoshopped. The tone and color of the image could be slightly adjusted, and the color can be changed into black and white or monochromatic. Composition and clipping are allowed.

4. Photographs must be in digital format, either TIF or JPG files. And resolution of the photo should be 300 dpi. TIF file should be no smaller than 50MB, the highest compressed format of JPG file no less than 7MB, and the maximum of the length should be no less than 3,000 pixels. If submitting to Facebook, photos could be compressed, but please keep the original file. If the photo is shortlisted, the original file will be required.

5. The headline and caption (in Chinese or English) must be complete, accurate and authors should provide sufficient details, including the process and location of the shoot.

6. Photo could be single or in a group - a group counts as a single photo. Each group should only have four to eight photos.

7. Please provide photographer's information, including nationality, address and phone number.

8. The author owns the copyright of the photo. Once the shortlisted photos are published, or the author is informed of being the finalist, it means that the author has agreed that the Bureau for External Cultural Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China has the right to use the shortlisted photos. The author shall enjoy the right of authorship in the work. The sponsor of the contest has the right to keep the finalists with their captions in its photo gallery and use them in other cultural activities or cultural products, such as exhibition, publication, poster and photo alum design. The sponsor also has the right to recommend the shortlisted photos with their captions to related media and will not pay the author for use.

9. All legal responsibility and all losses resulting from any copyright infringement, trademark rights, privacy rights, and publicity rights shall be borne by the author himself. The organizer does not take any legal responsibility and all losses resulting from but not limited to any copyright infringement, trademark rights, privacy rights, and publicity rights of the selected works.

10. Once the shortlisted candidates are announced, the author should provide personal information and bank information to get remuneration; if personal and bank information is not provided, the winner will be disqualified.

When

Starts from Jan 1, 2016 Submission deadline: Feb 29, 2016

Awards and Prizes

1. The contest will select 140 photos (single or group), including:

First prize:  10 photos (single or group), remuneration for each 5,000 RMB

Second prize: 20 photos (single or group), remuneration for each 3,000 RMB

Third prize:  40 photos (single or group), remuneration for each 2,000 RMB

Other selected works: 70 photos (single or group), remuneration for each 500 RMB

2. The organizer will deduct any tax on the award money and pay the authorities on behalf of the winners.

The author agrees that the sponsor of the event has the right of final interpretation of rules and regulations. If one does not meet the requirements, the work will be disqualified. By submitting the works the author agrees to accept the rules.

Sponsor

Bureau for External Cultural Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China

Host

Chinaculture.org

Organizer

Chinadaily.com.cn

        春节是中华民族最重要的传统节日，中国人过春节已超过4000多年的历史。近年来，欢庆春节的活动已延伸至全球各地。

       在猴年春节即将于2016年2月8日到来之际，在文化部外联局的指导下，中国文化网邀请国内外摄影爱好者参加第二届”乐享中国——欢乐春节“摄影作品征集活动。作品以欢庆中国春节为主题，反映春节系列庆祝活动在全球各地的举办盛况。活动将最终评选出收藏级摄影作品，在收藏级作品中评选出若干等级，给予相应稿酬并授予收藏证书。

一、活动筹办机构

主办单位：中国文化网

承办单位：中国日报网

支持单位：中华人民共和国文化部对外文化联络局

二、参加范围

       对中国文化感兴趣、在海外欢度中国春节的中外摄影家、专业摄影师及摄影爱好者，均可参加。国籍不限。

三、征集细则

1、作品主题。作品内容必须以欢庆中国春节为主题，或反映“欢乐春节”系列庆祝活动在全球各地的举办盛况，或反映人们在海外欢度中国春节的场景，通过真实、生动、鲜活地捕捉中国春节喜庆祥和的气氛，展示中国春节在海外的影响力。

备注：2016年欢乐春节重点活动

2、投稿人国籍不限，投稿作品必须拍摄于海外（外国及港澳台地区）。

3、作品必须是客观现实的真实反映，摄影风格和手法不限，不可改动原始影像，允许对影调、色彩进行有限的调整，允许将彩色原作转换为黑白或单色照片，允许构图剪裁。

4、作品采用电子文件方式投稿。作品为Tif格式或Jpg格式，分辨率为300dpi，Tif格式文件建议不低于50M，jpg最高格式压缩文件建议不低于7M（最长边不小于3000像素）。（通过脸书投稿可上传压缩图片，但请作者保存好原始文件，入选者在接到通知后须提供照片原始电子文件。）

5、作品单幅、组照不限，组照按一幅计，每组限4-8张。

6、作者提供的作品应配有标题及中文或英文简短介绍性文字说明（如创作过程、拍摄地点）。为便于联系，请参赛作者提供个人的国籍、通信地址、联系电话。

7、作品的著作权属于摄影作者，但每位投稿者在被公布或告知作品入选的同时即被视为已明确同意，作品使用权归中华人民共和国文化部外联局所有，作者享有署名权，主办方有权将所有入选作品的图片及文字说明录入中国外宣摄影图片库，在其文化宣传及文化外宣用品开发等活动中使用，如制作展览、出版图书、印制海报和画册等，并可推荐相关媒体发表，不再另付稿酬。

8、所有投稿作品著作权、与作品相关的肖像权、名誉权等法律问题，由作者自行解决并承担责任。主办方不承担因投稿作品所致的包括但不限于肖像权、名誉权、隐私权、著作权等纠纷而产生的法律责任。

9、摄影作者在接到入选通知后，主办方会要求入选者提供个人信息和银行账户等信息以便发放稿酬，如入选者拒不提供视为主动放弃稿酬。

四、征稿时间

征稿时间：2016年1月1日至2月29日。

五、活动奖励

1、本次活动将征集140幅（组）摄影作品，其中：

一级收藏作品10幅(组)，稿酬各5000元人民币；

二级收藏作品20幅(组)，稿酬各3000元人民币；

三级收藏作品40幅(组)，稿酬各2000元人民币；

入选作品70幅(组)，稿酬各500元人民币。

2、个人所得税由主办单位代扣代缴。

六、附则

       本次活动的解释权归主办单位，参加本次征集活动即视为同意并遵守本次征集活动的各项规则。凡不符合征稿要求的作品，一经发现将一律取消参评资格。