Brisk Market Prior to Festival (20020207)Consumers are choosing fruits at a super market of Harbin,capital of North China's Heilongjiang Province.Varieties of goods are streaming into market to meet the need in all parts of the country prior to the Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 12 this year. |  |
Brisk Market Prior to Festival (20020207)Some ethnic Yugu women on festive costumes purchase colorful cloth in the ethnic Yugu Autonomous Prefecture of Sunan in northwest China's Gansu Province Feb. 6, 2002. All parts of the country witness brisk market with abundant commodities prior to the Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 12 this year. |  |
Flower Sale Booms Prior to Festival (20020207)A citizen is choosing flowers at a flower market in Nanchang, capital of southern China's Jiangxi Province Feb. 6, 2002. Varieties of flowers are streaming into market to meet the need in all parts of the country prior to the Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 12 this year. |  |
Holiday Flower Market in Taibei Prosperous(20020205)Customers appreciate the flowers at the Holiday Flower Market in Taibei, capital of China's Taiwan, Feb. 4, 2002. Taiwan residents have a traditional custom to place potted flowers or miniature trees at home, which symbolizes being rich and prosperous just like blooming flowers. As the Spring Festival is coming up, Taibei residents go to the market one after another for flourishing flowers. |  |
Greeting Spring Festival in Phillippines (20020205)Boxes of New Year cake decorated with a big red Chinese character "Happiness" are displayed at a shop in Manila Feb. 4, 2002. Such cakes are a necessary for Chinese living in Philippines to celebrate the traditional Chinese lunnar New Year, horse year, which falls on Feb. 12. |  |
Enjoy Coming Spring Festival(20020204)A group of Miao ethnic people perform the local dances named "Welcome to Wansheng Stone Forest" in the street of southeast China's Chongqing city, on February 2. With the approach of Spring Festival, Chongqing authorities are witnessing a new round of tourism promotion waves. |  |
Welcome Spring Festival in the United States(20020204)The red lantens and spiral dragons were highly hung to celebrate the coming Chinese spring festival in Hu Lin Mall in Montgomery County , Maryland State. (Photo / Xu Dejin) |  |
Red Lantern All to Greet The Spring Festival(20020131)Some Tianjin Residents walk through the canopy composed of 2002 red lanterns on the Friendship Road Square in Tianjin, January 30, 2001. The 120-meter-long and 10-meter-high wall was set up to greet the forthcoming Spring Festival. |  |
Traditional Chinese Costumes Pop This Year(20020130)A man tries a traditional Chinese costume on in downtown Beijing January 29, 2002. Traditional Chinese costumes have been selling well as the Spring Festival (the Chinese Lunar New Year) is coming. |  |
Welcoming China's Spring Festival (20020130)A farmer hangs the freshly-made preserved hams in the courtyard of her home in Renshou County in southwest China's Sichuan Province prior to the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb 12 this year. |  |
