'Happy Chinese New Year' is a worldwide activity celebrating the traditional Chinese Spring Festival.And young children always enjoy the festivities the best. Joy blooms on their little faces as they greet the new year.
During the Lantern Festival, ancient Chinese people go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns. Nowadays the festival lanterns are not as popular as they once were in ancient times, but Chinese painters preserve these traditions in their paintings.
An exhibition of intangible cultural heritage to celebrate the upcoming Lantern Festival was held in Shenyang, Liaoning province on Feb 18. The event featured a series of works of cultural heritage transmitters.
Hundreds of thousands of people gather to celebrate the Firecracker Dragon Festival in Binyang county of Nanning, capital of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Feb 18, 2016.
A "Happy Chinese New Year" gala was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Feb 9-10. The Ministry of Culture of China and the Consulate General of China in Almaty organized the event.
A "Happy Chinese New Year" gala was held in Mauritius on Feb 8. The Ministry of Culture of China, the Chinese embassy in Mauritius, the China Cultural Center in Mauritius and the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Mauritius organized the event.
An annual worship ceremony was held at Du Fu's thatched cottage in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, during the "Day of Men", which falls on Feb 14, 2016.
A Peking opera and Kunqu opera cultural show was held in Tokyo to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year at the China Cultural Center on Feb 2.
A "Happy Chinese New Year" gala was held in Colombo in Sri Lanka on Jan 30. About 200 officials, representatives and students from Sri Lankan institutions and colleges attended.
A Chinese New Year concert and Spring Festival gala were held in Veliko Tarnovo, a former capital of Bulgaria, on Jan 31. The performances marked the opening of "2016 Happy Chinese New Year" in the southeastern European country.
The dance drama, Silk Road, was staged at the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay in Singapore on Jan 23. About 1,900 people attended the performance.
Spring Festival, which falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, is the most important festival in China and a time for family reunion, like Christmas in the West.
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