Dounan Flower center in Kunming blooms again

A peddler sells floral garlands to visitors at the market on Aug 9.

Around 10 pm, food and fruit vendors start arriving in the streets around the center, setting up stalls and turning the area into a vibrant night market.

At midnight, workers from transport companies are still busy packing flowers into boxes, loading them onto trucks and taking them to the airport and train stations.

The frantic pace continues for another two hours and it's only at about 3 am that the market finally becomes quiet.

However, after a few hours, the flower growers in their trucks start arriving as a new day dawns and the whole process starts again.