Residents of Tibetan ethnic group in Baoxing on Tuesday performed dragon and lion dances to celebrate the annual Shangjiu Festival, which falls on the 9th day of Chinese Lunar New Year, to express the respect to the heaven.
Zou Yute, a 62-year-old folk artist, is an inheritor of the traditional craftsmanship of making firecracker dragon lanterns in Binyang county of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Band from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region led the audience through a mixture of nomadic melodies, as part of its UK tour that started on Jan 26.
The Binyang-style dance is a derivative of traditional dragon dance in which performers hold dragon on poles and walk through floods of firecrackers. The dance was listed as a state intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
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My lingering memories of my Shanghai-Suzhou tour would be the warmth and kindness of total strangers, but for whom I'd have found it difficult to find my way from subway stations to various tourist sites.
Before the onset of the Year of the Monkey, I embark on a four-day trip to Shanghai, and a chance to see how life turns vibrant in China around the Lunar New Year's Day.
Tourists view colored lanterns during a lantern carnival at the Expo Park in Shanghai, East China, Feb 15, 2016.
People perform Gaotai Dixi, a local folk opera staged on the open space of flat land, at Weiqi village of Puding county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Feb 15, 2016.
The Puzhen tie-dye workshop in Zhoucheng village doesn't have any modern machinery despite being one of the largest such operations in Yunnan province's Dali area.
For the first time in Italy, the strength of Chinese characters in the works of a leading artist was central to an exhibition that kicked off on Saturday.
Photo taken on Feb 15, 2016 shows lanterns at a themed lantern show in Jimo, East China's Shandong province.
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