From Food to Decoration: Lunar New Year Preparations Are Underway

A woman makes a Chinese knot for a wall decoration at Liujing village, Xiayi township in Central China's Henan Province, Dec 3, 2016.

Spring Festival decorations sold at a market in Yangzhou city, East China's Jiangsu Province, Jan 8, 2017.

Workers are busy making lanterns in a factory in Hefei, East China's Anhui Province, Jan 6, 2017. The factory is the largest one of its kind in Asia.

Two boys present clay artworks of "nian" made by themselves at a temple fair event for the upcoming Spring Festival in Tianjin, Jan 7, 2017.

A baby is attracted by red lanterns at a fair on Spring Festival shopping in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Jan 7, 2017.

Tens of thousands of red candles are made for the coming Spring Festival in the "village of candles," Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan 7, 2017.

Craftswomen make festive lanterns for the upcoming Spring Festival in Xuan'en county, Central China's Hubei Province, Jan 7, 2017.

Villagers are busy making rice cakes in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, Dec 25, 2016.

A photo of "flower cakes", or rice cakes with bean paste, made in Liangcheng city of East China's Shandong Province, Jan 5, 2017.

Children practice writing Spring Festival couplets at a calligraphy teaching center in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province, Jan 8, 2017.

With the Spring Festival roosting in every Chinese home on Jan. 28, people in villages are all hands preparing food specialties and traditional decorations to celebrate the coming Year of the Rooster.