Musician playing a tang luo to accompany a shadow-puppet performance

Street vendor selling food at a food stand at New Year's

Street vendor's stand displaying gourd-shaped glass trumpets called bu bu deng at New Year's

Woman at a stand selling paper flowers at New Year's

Man cutting a figure of a horse to use for a wallpaper pattern

Shadow puppets in performance

Man laying cloth over the ribs of a lantern in a lantern-making shop

Man tying the ribs of a lantern with string in a lantern-making shop

Man attaching ribs to lantern base in a lantern-making shop

Man pasting characters onto a lantern in a lantern-making shop

Ceramic roof tiles decorated with animal-shaped ornaments at a tile and brick factory near Mentougou Qu

Man cutting cloth for a lantern in a lantern-making shop

Person hauling a block of ice with a rope

Ice-cutter hauling a block of ice past a man sitting with a basket

People storing blocks of ice underground

Man making a lantern rib in a lantern-making shop

Lantern inscribed with the character xi hanging from a tripod stand in a lantern-making shop

Man with an abacus writing in an account book in a lantern-making shop

Man calculating with an abacus in a lantern-making shop

Man making a bow in a bow-and-arrow-making shop