People across China make preparations for upcoming Spring Festival

A worker prepares flowers at a modern gardening industrial park in Gugao Town of Taizhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 23, 2026. Chinese people are busy preparing fresh flowers, Chinese knots, spring couplets, and other traditional necessities to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)