New Year pictures add festive atmosphere to Spring Festival

Staff members of Shenyang Imperial Museum decorate the doors with New Year pictures to celebrate the Little New Year, or Xiaonian in Chinese on Feb 6. Xiaonian is a festival that falls on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month of the lunar year, usually one week before Chinese Spring Festival. New Year pictures are the Chinese traditional decorations of the Spring festival, conveying the meaning of “good luck for new year”. [Photo/IC]

Tourists dress in traditional costumes pose for a group photo in front of the door of Shenyang Imperial Museum to welcome the upcoming Chinese Spring Festival. Shenyang Imperial Palace, also called Mukden Palace, was built in 1625 as the residence of Nurhaci and his son Hong Taiji, founders of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Shenyang was later used as an accompanying capital after the dynasty moved its capital to Beijing in 1644. Currently, it is one of the most well-preserved palaces in China. [Photo/IC]

Tourists dress in traditional costumes pose for a group photo in front of the door of Shenyang Imperial Museum to welcome the upcoming Chinese Spring Festival.[Photo/IC]