• CATTLE TOTEM
    A villager plows cropland with a head of cattle in the field in Zhengyuan Village of Qidu Township in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, on March 3.

    The local villagers, who traditionally farm cattle, tie red flowers on cattle and perform a bullfight dance with straw bundled with incense on the 13th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year (LI GA)
  • LANTERN FESTIVAL
    Children in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, make sticky rice dumplings, or yuanxiao in Chinese, and shape them in various animals on March 4.

    The festival, which fell on March 5 this year, is celebrated on the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year and marks the end of the Spring Festival (XU YU)
  • SUPER BULB
    Workers operate on the production line of super quantum LED bulbs in Liancheng County, southeast China’s Fujian Province, on March 3.

    The super quantum LED bulb and its high-speed automatic production line were unveiled that day. The bulb is characterized by high luminous efficiency and a long life span (LIN SHANCHUAN)
  • SEEDS OF THE FUTURE
    An unmanned aerial vehicle spreads seeds onto the ground in Wanzhou District, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, on March 2. Dozens of machines are being utilized to do ploughing and sowing in the district, which greatly improves efficiency of farming (TANG YI)