Decorating the New Year

January 10, Zibo, Shandong Province: Workers make door decorations at a factory. Lunar New Year’s Day falls on January 28 this year, the dawn of the Year of the Rooster. Although holiday decorations are dramatically diversified these days, some traditional Spring Festival decorations, such as door decorations, door-god pictures, paper-cuts, and red lanterns still sell well both in China and Chinese communities abroad. Since some production processes cannot be fully mechanized and require manual work, the manufacturers must step up production to keep up with orders.