NO WINTER IS INSURMOUNTABLE. Then comes the spring, with the explosiveness of longer days and songbirds returning to the willows along the river banks. The silent ground wakes from cold winter, everything is at its best.
As the spring comes, trees take on the green color, and the smell of the grass is flowing in the air.
In the heartland of Hunan province, the spring breeze comes through the fields and hills like a beating paintbrush. Wherever it dances, it paints in lush color. The birds fly out from home in a sunny blue sky.
It's an annual spring phenomenon that occurs with the blossoming of local poplar and willow trees. With the warmer weather emerges, the more discerning and lazier eater in us.
The land from every corner of the air is full of spring. With the wonder of your love for spring, the sun above always shines.
More than 200 cherry trees blossom in Changsha's Wangyue Park, forming a scenery with the intersected lake. XU XING/FOR CHINA DAILY
In the Hengyang Ecological Park, a chickadee flies over plum blossoms. ZHANG JINGMING/FOR CHINA DAILY
The plum trees bloom against a backdrop of green grass in the Orange Isle, a scenic spot in Changsha. LI JIAN/FOR CHINA DAILY
Farmers dig lotus roots in Siping village, Longshan county. ZENG XIANGHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY
Farmers are busy ploughing in Mangtouzhai village, Daoxian county. HE HONGFU/FOR CHINA DAILY
Workers are busy picking sunflowers in a greenhouse at Longhualing village, Ansha town, Changsha. GUO LILIANG/FOR CHINA DAILY
In Liaoshi village, Liaojiang town, Zixing, Hunan province, 10,000 acres of rapeseed flowers are in bloom, and the villagers plant the words "spring" in the fields. ZHU XIAORONG/FOR CHINA DAILY