Chinese Perform Various Traditional Activities To Celebrate Beginning Of Spring

Villagers are about to kill a pig for a feast in Jiangwan Village of Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Feb. 4, 2013. Various traditional activities were held in Wuyuan to celebrate “Lichun”, literally meaning the beginning of the spring, as well as the Xiaonian Festival which falls on the 23rd or 24th day of the 12th month of the Chinese traditional lunar calendar.

Zhan Ruitian (L, front), a calligraphy enthusiast, writes Spring Festival Couplets in Jiangwan Village of Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Feb. 4, 2013.

Performers walk with a dragon lantern in Jiangwan Village of Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Feb. 4, 2013.

Villagers perform Nuo Dance, a traditional Chinese dance art, in Jiangwan Village of Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Feb. 4, 2013. <Xinhua/Song Zhenping>