People across China make preparations for upcoming Spring Festival

An inheritor of paper-cutting art, an intangible cultural heritage, guides a student during a paper-cutting event in Ruyang County, Luoyang City of central China's Henan 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 Kang Hongjun/Xinhua)