Yuqing people put on a dragon dance on Feb 9 to welcome the upcoming Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb 11 this year. Yuqing county stands in the city of Xingyi, Guizhou province. The county has a tradition of enacting dragon dances during the Lantern Festival period that are certainly a spectacular sight to behold. [Photo/chinanews.com]

The dragon dance is mixed with the brilliant white of fireworks that are let off by locals during one such dance in Yuqing county on Feb 9. [Photo/chinanews.com]

People shoot fireworks by hand during one dragon dance that takes place in Yuqing county on Feb 9. [Photo/chinanews.com]