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China's countdown to Spring Festival
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A vendor decorates a Chinese ornament for sale at a market ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Jakarta. The Chinese New Year, the most important of Chinese holidays will be culminate on January 23. (AFP PHOTO / Adek Berry)
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A woman looks at a New Year decoration at a market in Beijing, China. Chinese will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Jan 23 this year. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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A child looks at mannequins dressed in New Year costumes on display for sale outside a market in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Bengali White Tiger cubs, dressed in traditional Chinese clothes for the upcoming Spring Festival, are seen eating inside their cage at a zoo in Qingdao, Shandong province. Reuters
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A craftsman paints lantern parts in the shape of the head of the bodhisattva Guanyin, for a lantern festival to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, at a workshop in Suining, Sichuan province. Reuters
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People burn incense sticks as they pray at the Old City God Temple in Yuyuan Garden, downtown Shanghai.
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