A street vendor on Yincheng street, Dexing city, Jiangxi province removes boiled Ai Fruit from a pot of boiling water.
People from different provinces have their own ways to celebrate the Longtaitou Festival, which falls on the second day of the second lunar month every year.
February 4 marked the Beginning of Spring this year, the first of the 24 solar terms, according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar. It is a tradition in China to eat a flour pancake, which usually contains rolled up vegetables, fried egg and deli food dipped into thick broad-bean sauce. Chinese people refer to eating this stuffed-pancake roll as "Yaochun", which literally means "biting the spring".
Children learn to make the "sugar-coated haws on a stick", a traditional Chinese snack, at a children centre in Tianjin, north China, Jan 30, 2013.
A view shows a plate of desserts during the media preview of a Barbie-themed cafe in Taipei.
Palestinian artist Salwa Sbakhi paints using coffee at her studio in Gaza city.
Customers are seen selecting goods on a market in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong province.
Residents participate in the traditional giant King's Ring cake cutting (Rosca de Reyes), in celebration of Three Kings Day.
A woman of the Hui ethnic group prepares halal food in Xinglong town of Xiji county, northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
People buy dumplings in a supermarket in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Dec 21.
Five nuts to improve your physical quality in winter. They are Almonds,peanuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts and walnuts.