On Friday, a child is holding a cow-shaped balloon in Sanfang Qixiang, a historic and cultural area in Fuzhou, the capital city of Southeast China’s Fujian Province. (Photos: chinanews.com, compiled by Xiong Xinyi)

The Ming City Wall of Nanjing, the capital city of East China’s Jiangsu Province, is decorated with different shapes of “good fortune” characters, full of Chinese New Year’s atmosphere.

For the first time, Mickey and Minnie Mouse dress in specially designed Chinese New Year outfits at Shanghai Disneyland. The red and gold New Year costumes are full of traditional Chinese elements, signifying the auspiciousness of the Year of the Ox.

People enjoy a variety of delicious local snacks on Friday in Kuanzhai Alley, Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

In Southeast China’s Fujian Province, an ox lantern at the entrance of Fuzhou Mindu Folklore Park attracts many tourists to take photos.

Customers purchase cosmetics at a duty-free shop in Haikou, South China’s Hainan Province. During the Spring Festival holiday, duty-free stores in Hainan provide a series of preferential activities to attract travelers and promote consumption.

In the Confucian Temple of Jinan, East China’s Shandong Province, the representatives of Taiwan compatriots who stayed during the Spring Festival holiday beat drums to worship Confucius and pray, together with local people in traditional Chinese Han-style clothes.

Many people are shopping in a mall in Taiyuan, the provincial capital of North China’s Shanxi.