A girl puts lanterns onto a river in Zhouzhuang of east China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 31, 2015. More than 200 tourists put lanterns onto the river of Zhouzhuang to greet the New Year of 2016 on Thursday. (Xinhua/Yang Lei)
Like Christmas Day in the West, it is traditional in China to cook up an enormous feast on Chinese New Year, with dinner tables groaning under the weight of dozens of dishes.