Combo photo taken on Jan. 5, 2014 shows walnut-carving works featuring the theme of horse to greet the upcoming Chinese lunar new year, the Year of Horse, in Zibo City of east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 5, 2014. (Xinhua/Zhao Dongshan)
Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2014 shows passengers' belongings in their luggages through X-Ray of the security inspection at a bus terminal in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Yu Fangping)
Deng Liuliu (L) and Lu Yi have fallen in love for 1,016 days. It is the first time that Deng has invited Lu Yi to her home to visit her parents together. Lu bought cigarettes and liquor for his future parents-in-law. Weight: 60.5 kilograms. (Photo/ Zhou Jian)
Chief attendant Su Hong helps Yan Huan and Yan Yi trim their uniforms on the train T58. (Chinanews.com/Hu Zhiqiang)
A staff member shows a piece of golden lucky money at a gold store in Taiyuan of north China's Shanxi province on Jan. 26, 2014. Lucky money is traditionally given in red packages to young people during Chinese Lunar New Year. These red envelopes are called Hung Bao, and they are usually decorated with symbols of wealth and luck. (Photo: ens.cn/Zhang Yun)
Photo taken on late night Jan. 26, 2014 shows Zhang Ting (L) and Shi Xiaoli, members of a service group mainly in charge of serving infirm passengers at Beijing Railway Station. As the 2014 Chinese lunar new year approaches, a travel peak has been witnessed during the last weekend before the upcoming festival. Railway personnel have been working around the clock during the peak. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
Liu Yunshan (R), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, talks with Feng Qiyong, famous scholar of Chinese masterpiece "A Dream of Red Mansions", in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 26, 2014. On behalf of President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Liu visited several cultural icons in Beijing and extended lunar new year greetings to all cultural workers in the country.(Xinhua/Wang Ye)
Combination photo shows the villagers watching a cockfighting show in Cao County, Heze City, east China's Shandong province, Jan. 27, 2014. Cockfighting is very popular all around Heze City during the Spring Festival period. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)
"Milk Tea" girl Zhang Zetian (R), an internet celebrity who is said on the top of the list of China's prettiest univerity students, hosts a Spring Festival gala of 20 Universities and Colleges in Eastern US, in Washington D.C., the United States, Jan. 26, 2014. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu)
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The students pose for photo on a bridge, marking the first day of the journey. (Photo provided to People’s Daily Online)
A group of migrant workers depart from Nantang Avenue in Jinjiang City, southeastern China's Fujian Province, to embark on their 500-kilometer-long journey home by motorcycle, 7:08 a.m., Jan. 23, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)
People sign the banner calling for a fireworks-free Spring Festival in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 25, 2014. The Chinese Spring Festival, or lunar New Year, is traditionally celebrated with fireworks, which cause serious air pollution. A number of Jinan citizens called Saturday on others to stop exploding fireworks during the Spring Festival starting on Jan. 31 this year to protect the environment. (Xinhua/Lyu Chuanquan)
U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu unveils the "Celebrating Lunar New Year: Year of the Horse" forever stamp during the opening ceremony of the two-day Monterey Park Chinese New Year Festival in Los Angeles Jan. 25, 2014. (Xinhua/Zhao Hanrong)
A girl watches spring festival scrolls in a trading center in Wan'an County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 25, 2014. With the Spring Festival approaching, special purchases for the lunar new year with a fair price attracted the Chinese people. (Xinhua/Zhou Ke)
Ding Yue the "sunflower", Zhang Jing the "Lily", Bai Junlai the "Snow Lotus", Wang Yuting the "Daffodil", and Yang Huan the "Wintersweet", pose for a photo Jan. 22, 2014. (Photo/vip.people.com.cn)
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Photo taken on Jan. 23 shows airport workers performing flash mob dance in the terminal building of Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, north China's Liaoning province, to bring joys and happiness to passengers during the Spring Festival. (Photo/CNS)
A man carrying a boy boards a train at the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 19, 2014. China has kicked off its annual Lunar New Year travel rush period, with more than 3.62 billion trips expected to be made on roads, and via trains, planes and ships around the Spring Festival, which falls on Jan. 31 this year. (Xinhua/Wang Jianyun)
Pan Xiaoyan (1st R), an 8-year old girl, and other children write Chinese couplets to greet the upcoming Spring Festival, in Hangzhou City, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 22, 2014. Chinese have the tradition to fix the couplet, which are red scrolls with rhyming phrases, on their doors during the Spring Festival, hoping it can bring in good luck. The Spring Festival falls on Jan. 31 this year. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Passengers queue up to check in at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Jan. 18, 2014. (Photo source: chinanews.cn/Qian Xingqiang)
Migrant workers take on a home-going trip by motorcycle from Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 23, 2014. More than 1,500 migrant workers in Fujian, most of whom from the provinces of Jiangxi, Anhui and Hubei, started their home-going trip by motorcycle on Thursday. On average, the motorcycle travellers will ride a 700-kilometer distance before they arrive in their homelands for family reunion during the Spring Festival, which falls on Jan. 31 this year. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)
A worker packs vegetables at a vegetable distribution center in Haidong, the second largest city in northwest China's Qinghai Province, Jan. 22, 2014. Qinghai provincial capital Xining has made efforts to ensure supply of vegetables during the Spring Festival by importing vegetables from surrounding areas including Haidong. The Spring Festival, or the Chinese traditional lunar New Year, begins on Jan. 31 this year. (Xinhua/Wu Gang)
A passenger with child gets on a free bus at Fuyang railway station, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 22, 2014. "Take You Home", a free bus service provided by the local government, was launched today at Fuyang railway station. The program will be serving from Jan. 22 to 28 for passengers going home for the Spring Festival. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)
A worker cleans the exterior of a passenger car at Yinchuan Railway Station in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 20, 2014. It is estimated that over a million passengers will travel by trains operated by the Yinchuan passenger section of the Lanzhou Railway Bureau, which is in charge of railway transport in Ningxia and Gansu, during the 2014 "Chunyun", a 40-day Spring Festival travel rush period starting from Jan. 16. About 1,800 support crew members from the Lanzhou Railway Bureau's Yinchuan passenger section will be dedicated to services during the "Chunyun". (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)
Kevin and the kids show their paper cut works Jan. 20. (Photo/Xinhua)
A steward distributes free books and magazines to passengers on the train from Yinchuan to Guangzhou on Jan. 21, 2014. Many special services were provided on the trains from Yinchuan to Guangzhou during the Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)
A little "migratory bird" goes back home on her mother's back. (cnr.cn/Wang Haibin)
Luo Hengdi, 51, a villager of Guangcan village in southwest China’s Sichuan province. (Xinhua/ Hang Yuqing)
