Children surround a "spring cow" on display among the folk activities held at the Beijing Ancient Observatory in Beijing, capital of China, to celebrate the Start of Spring, which falls on Feb 4, 2016.
People across China celebrate the beginning of spring by following traditions such as eating radishes and spring pancakes, representing the acceptation of new and auspicious things.
A total of 100 monkey figurines have been placed on the Nanjing West Road, a prosperous commericial street, in Shanghai, to create a New Year atmosphere.
With the the theme of "Recall the Past", the exhibition was held to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Spring, the first solar term of the year, begins this year on Feb 4 and ends on Feb 18.
A long-running exhibit, Treasures of the Great Tang Dynasty – Exhibition of the Unearthed Relics from Hejia Village, reopened on Tuesday after a one-month closure in the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province.
A group of Cuban dancers perform "yangko", a Chinese rural folk dance, at a theme park in Harbin in Heilongjiang province on Feb 2.
Lanterns are hung up to greet the upcoming Spring Festival in Macao, south China, on Jan. 29, 2016.
Artifacts used by the upper class in ancient China are on display at an exhibition in Xuyi county, East China's Jiangsu Province, Feb 2, 2016.
A newly-revised regulation on art dealing, issued by China's Ministry of Culture on Tuesday, has eased restrictions on import and export of works of art.
Dressed in lavish costumes, makeup and exquisite headdresses, two actresses from China National Peking Opera Company, perform extracts from two well-known Peking Opera works.
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