Lantern Shows Brighten Festive Moods across China

As the Chinese Lunar New Year draws closer, many places across China have staged lantern exhibitions that create a festive mood.

A nine-meter tall rooster lantern is on display at a lantern show at the Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai, Jan 22, 2017.

A Spring Festival lantern of dragons show lights up Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, Jan 20, 2017.

Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, stages a lantern show of lotous and gooses on Jan 22.

View a lantern show of luncky Children in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 21, 2017.