Spring scenery in Guizhou

10:29, February 27, 2021

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  New born seal cub seen at Haichang Ocean Park in Shanghai

  Photo taken on Feb. 26, 2021 shows a new born seal cub at Haichang Ocean Park in east China's Shanghai. [Photo/Xinhua].

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  Lantern Festival traditions celebrated all across China

  Villagers, volunteers and children make festive lanterns together on February 24 at a cultural auditorium in a village under the administration of the city of Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province. To celebrate the February 26 Lantern Festival, they all made lanterns and tangyuan or yuanxiao glutinous rice balls. They also played lantern riddles and talked about festival customs. (Photos: People's Daily; compiled by Yang Jiaqi)Visitors enjoy including ice and snow sports at a Winter-Olympic-themed lantern show on February 24 in the North China city of Zhangjiakou, site of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.Dragon dancers welcome the upcoming Lantern Festival in the Central China village of Xiachong in the town of Luoqiao on February 23. To celebrate the February 26 festival, the village, which is under the administration of the Hunan Province city of Changning, held a variety of cultural activities.A craftswoman shows off her traditional huajuan flower roll, a variety of Chinese steamed bun, in the town of Linhuan, Huaibei city, East China's Anhui Province, on February 23. One of the ancient town’s traditional Lantern Festival customs is to create and steam these elaborate, colorful rolls. Linhuan residents also like to make their own special miandeng dough lamps. These folk crafts have been passed down from generation to generation.

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  Enjoy 'tangyuan' on Lantern Festival

  A macaque enjoys food shaped like tangyuan, a kind of round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 25, 2021. Most Chinese usually eat tangyuan on the Lantern Festival. The word tangyuan is nearly the same as tuanyuan, which means reunion in Chinese, making the food a symbol of families coming together. (Photos: Xinhua)Giant panda Shunshun enjoys food shaped like tangyuan, a kind of round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 25, 2021. Most Chinese usually eat tangyuan on the Lantern Festival. The word tangyuan is nearly the same as tuanyuan, which means reunion in Chinese, making the food a symbol of families coming together. A staff member feeds an elephant with food shaped like tangyuan, a kind of round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 25, 2021. Most Chinese usually eat tangyuan on the Lantern Festival. The word tangyuan is nearly the same as tuanyuan, which means reunion in Chinese, making the food a symbol of families coming together.Macaques enjoy food shaped like tangyuan, a kind of round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 25, 2021. Most Chinese usually eat tangyuan on the Lantern Festival. The word tangyuan is nearly the same as tuanyuan, which means reunion in Chinese, making the food a symbol of families coming together. A staff member feeds milu deer with food shaped like tangyuan, a kind of round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 25, 2021. Most Chinese usually eat tangyuan on...

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  Bright moon ahead of Lantern Festival in China's Hainan

  The bright moon hangs in the clear sky in Qionghai city, China's southernmost province of Hainan, on February 25, ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival. (Photos: CICPHOTO.CN; compiled by Yang Jiaqi)The bright moon hangs in the clear sky in Qionghai city, China's southernmost province of Hainan, on February 25, ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival.The bright moon hangs in the clear sky in Qionghai city, China's southernmost province of Hainan, on February 25, ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival.The bright moon hangs in the clear sky in Qionghai city, China's southernmost province of Hainan, on February 25, ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival.The bright moon hangs in the clear sky in Qionghai city, China's southernmost province of Hainan, on February 25, ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival.