CCTV News (News Network): Hanging lanterns and visiting flower markets, as the Spring Festival approaches, the New Year flavor is getting stronger in various places.

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On Beijing’s Chang’an Street, red lanterns, Chinese knots and other various lighting decorations are lit up one after another, and the ten-mile long street is “draped in red and colorful” to welcome the New Year. The Yuexiu mountain lanterns in Guangzhou are dazzling. Large lamp groups with Lingnan characteristics and water lanterns create a colorful and festive atmosphere. In Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, this year's lantern festival will recreate 38 cultural relics and treasures in the form of lantern sets, making the cultural relics "alive" and "lit". In this way, citizens and tourists can feel the charm of traditional Chinese festivals. In Xiamen, Fujian, tens of thousands of palace lanterns, sepak takraw lanterns, and string lanterns fill the streets and alleys, decorating the city. The breeze blows, the lanterns sway, and it is full of joy.

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The flower market welcomes the New Year with great scenery. In the country's largest flower market - Dounan Flower Market in Kunming, Yunnan, millions of New Year's Eve flowers are shipped to all parts of the country every day these days. Careful merchants pack the flowers with insulation cotton and insulation bags, even if they are sent to the cold north. , it is still in bud and full of spring when placed at home. In Nanning, Guangxi, the jasmine flower market is overflowing with fragrance. Phalaenopsis, which symbolize happiness and happiness, kumquats, and dozens of varieties of flowers are in full bloom. People take their favorite New Year flowers home or send them to relatives and friends.