The Lantern Festival is an important traditional occasion that brings the Spring Festival to an end. Various activities are held in celebration of the festival across China.
Where are these foreigners? What are doing? Why are they holding windmills and lettuce? What are they chanting? Why do they want to cross a bridge?
This year, Lantern Festival falls on Sunday, marking the official end of the Spring Festival celebrations in China.
Lichun, or Start of Spring, is the first of the traditional Twenty-Four Solar Terms, encompassing the beginning of all things, rebirth and heralding a new cycle.
The London Eye glittered in gold and red. A giant rabbit was installed at Trafalgar Square. Dancers put on dragon and lion costumes, waiting for the drumbeat.
Jiang Laoben remembers fondly celebrating traditional ethnic Miao festivals as a girl in her home village. Of all the festivals, she enjoyed the Guzang Festival the most.
Tourists play with rabbit-shaped lanterns at Hongcun village in Yixian county, East China’s Anhui province, Jan 30, 2023
VALLETTA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, were held in Malta's largest shopping mall in Sliema, a commercial centre in eastern Malta on Saturday.
10 German cooking aficionados took part in the cooking class themed around Chinese New Year’s Eve on Jan 19 at the China Cultural Center in Berlin.
A carnival to usher in the Year of the Rabbit was held at the city hall of Copenhagen in Denmark on Jan 21, the eve of Chinese New Year.
A work on show at Splendid Chinese New Year Paintings, an exhibit held at the China Cultural Center in Luxembourg. [Photo/official website of China Cultural Center in Luxembourg]Splendid Chinese New Year Paintings, an exhibit of 100 pieces of nianhua,or New Year paintings, kicked off on Jan 13 at the China Cultural Center in Luxemburg to unveil the Chinese New Year celebrations in the European country.
Art is a form of communication and painting making it an important way to record and illustrate events over time. Artists in China have used different methods to show their appreciation for workers on the front line of the fight against COVID-19.
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