The lantern market opened to the public on the eve of the Spring Festival in Nanjing in Jiangsu province.
Photos of people shopping at a flower market in Beijing.
Photos of fireworks in NYC to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year.
Fireworks play an important part of CNY celebrations.
Photos of decorations and lanterns greeting Chinese Lunar New Year.
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals of China. On the fifth day of the fifth month on the lunar calendar, people join the dragon boat races and eat Zongzi, a kind of sticky rice dumplings. This has been a tradition for thousands of years.
A world-class tourism destination is taking shape on the island province of Hainan, catering to those in search of culture, countryside, shopping or medical treatment.
Island province proves popular with retirees, residents of northern cities hit by winter air pollution.
Across China, different areas have generated and developed their own teahouse culture. In Zhejiang province, one of the tea producing areas, drinking tea and going to teahouses have long been away of life.
Teahouses regain their popularity, especially with the younger generation, after adapting to save their business amid cultural shifts.
Sinkholes must be one of the rarest geological phenomena in the world, since they are formed when carbonate rocks are eroded over a long period of time by an underground river, the water would hollows out the rock which eventually collapses, leaving the process up to 500,000 years to form.
The scarcity of sinkholes means the well-preserved Hanzhong sinkholes are not only of scientific importance, they are also a resource that can be exploited to boost the local economy.