Visitors tour a lantern festival held at the Old City God Temple of east China's Shanghai Municipality, Jan. 23, 2012, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. [Photo: Xinhua/Cai Yaofang]
An actor performs "face changing", a traditional dramatic art of the Sichuan Opera, in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 23, 2012, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. [Photo: Xinhua/Huang Zhe]
Folk artists from central China's Henan Province give performance in the Xuanwuhu Park in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 23, 2012, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. [Photo: Xinhua/Wang Xin]
A Ghanaian student plays the bridegroom in a Chinese wedding ceremony simulation held in Zibo, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 23, 2012, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. [Photo: Xinhua/Dong Naide]
Tourists walk on the Qianmen Street in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 23, 2012, the first day of lunar Year of Dragon. [Photo: Xinhua/Li Fangyu]
Tourists appreciate lanterns at a park in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Jan. 23, 2012, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. [Photo: Xinhua/Long Hongtao]
