Traditional Lantern Festival was held on Monday in China. This holiday means the 15th and last day of Spring Festival - an annual celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

 People perform dragon dance at this shower of sparks from the fireworks in the park in Chongqing, China. (ZUMA24.com Chen Cheng)
 Thousands of people in helmets stand for fireworks in the hope that they will get a spark or a firecracker in Yangshuo, Taiwan. Fireworks Festival in Yangshuo has occurred in the late XIX century, when the villagers suffered from a cholera epidemic, using fireworks to scare away evil spirits, who, they thought, have brought the infection to their villages. (AP / Wally Santana)
 People gathered in the Garden Yuyuan after Chinese New Year. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
 Lanterns in the form of a dragon in the garden in ovremya Yuyuan Lantern Festival. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
 People in the background of a large lantern in the shape of a dragon in the garden of Yuyuan. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
 People gathered in the garden at the Yuyuan Lantern Festival. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
 A girl wearing a mask walks past lights in the form of terracotta warriors in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
  A couple walks under lanterns in Yuyuan Garden. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
 Performers dancing at the event on the eve of the Feast of lanterns in the shopping center in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 Working in the costume of the god of luck gives people the opportunity to touch the ancient symbol of money and good luck in the Yuyuan Garden. (AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
 Workers have the lights, deflated and partially torn by a strong wind, a shopping area in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 A man on an empty square, decorated with red lanterns in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 Artist played drums in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. (ZUMA24.com Qi Xiaojun)
 People walk under the red lanterns in Jinan. (ZUMA24.com Zhu Zheng)
 Boys and girls are sent into the sky lantern Kunming, made of paper, on the eve of the Feast of lanterns in Wenzhou. In China, it is assumed that if you send a flashlight into the sky, above the desire must be fulfilled. (ZUMA24.com Chen Xiang)
 People on the Lantern Festival in Taipei. (AP / Chiang Ying-ying)
 People look at the lights in Taipei. (AP / Chiang Ying-ying)
 A lantern in the shape of a dragon in the park Baise. (ZUMA24.com Luo Zhiken)
 People watching the dragon dance during a Lantern Festival in Chzhayin, Guizhou Province. (AP /)
 People take pictures of the artists at the shopping center in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 Dancers with the drums under the lights after the show in a shopping center in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 Women dressed in royal representatives of the Qing Dynasty in the shopping center in Beijing during the Lantern Festival. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 People are watching dancing on donkeys in a shopping center in Beijing. (AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
 Chinese girl in a mask with a flashlight in the shape of lotus stands next to the shop lights in the city of Nanjing. (AP /)
 People look at the lights by high school students in Taipei. (ZUMA24.com Jin Liangkuai)
 People involved in the dragon dance in the county Syantszyuy where people make a dragon made of bamboo. The dragons are made of bamboo and decorated with colorful paper and lit a candle. Locals believe that the dragon dance can bring them good fortune and peace.(ZUMA24.com Xu Yu)
 Hundreds of Taiwanese produce "sky lanterns" in the hope of good luck and prosperity in the new year. (AP / Wally Santana)
 Hundreds of residents of Taipei released into the sky paper lanterns. (AP / Wally Santana)
Source: bigpicture.ru