Lunar New Year travellers wait for their train at the West Railway Station in Beijing on January 31, 2013. The world's largest annual migration is underway in China with tens of millions across China boarding trains to journey home for Lunar New Year celebrations [Reuters]
Chinese performers arrange each other's costumes before a recreation of the Sacrifice to Heaven ritual on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing [EPA]
A Chinese soldier watches performers walk past as tourists are kept behind a fence [EPA]
People watch a traditional Chinese performance outside a Daoist temple in Beijing, the capital [EPA]
A soldier holds a fence as people try to take photos of actors reenacting an imperial ritual as part of the Spring festival activities at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing [EPA]
The Lunar New Year holiday is the most important annual celebration in China, when the nation largely shuts down as families gather together for reunions and feasts [Reuters]
Chinese performers on stilts have a snack before the start of the show at a temple fair [EPA]
A Chinese performer lies half-covered in snakes during celebrations for the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival at a park fair in Beijing [EPA]