Puppeteer with a collection of shadow puppets hung on a string

Musician with drum, castanets, and stringed instrument accompanying a shadow-puppet performance

Man brushing wallpaper

Boys handpainting wallpaper

Musician with stringed instrument and drum accompanying a shadow-puppet performance

Man hawking paper birds at New Year's

Two women watching a shadow-puppet performance of two figures in a boat

Street vendor selling candied hawthorn berries (tanghulu 糖葫蘆), during Lunar New Year, Beijing

Puppeteer working shadow puppets behind a screen

Woman feeding a child at New Year's

Street vendor selling diabolo tops at New Year's

Boy standing on a tortoise stela and street vendor hawking toys at New Year's

Vendor at Bai yun guan selling paper money in the form of shoes to burn as offerings during New Year's

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