Recent online pictures show around 1,000 white egret flowering trees are blooming in the Renhe community, southwest Yunnan’s Shidian county. The flower is beautiful and edible.

Tiao Xiaoni, a staff member with the international railway, is in love of flowers and good at cooking flower dishes. The other day after work, Tian made a flower feast for her colleagues.

Latest online pictures and video show high-speed trains running through flower fields in Yunnan province. Coupled by the peach blossoms, the oil-seed rape flowers and others, the trains look unusually cool.

Also known as Magnolia campbellii, the magnolia is a species that grows in sheltered valleys of the Himalayas: from east Nepal and east India to southwest China and north Myanmar.

The Hongshanzui beach of the Fuxian Lake in central Yunnan is one of the region’s most vibrant attractions. It is the only real and nature-born pink beach in China.

There is a quaint bakery called "Jiuxi" in Leju, a village that lies in Tuanjie Township of suburban Kunming. At two or three in the afternoon, people would queue for bread from Jiuxi.

Native to China, Korea, Japan and the US, wisteria is a long-lived vining plant with cascades of blue to purple flowers that look spectacular in spring and early summer.

Covering around 260 hectares, the cherry trees remain blooming from January to April and the sights invite in hosts of tourists.

In the flourishing spring, the peach flowers are blooming in Shidian county, southwest Yunnan’s Baoshan city, inviting in hosts of tourists.

Su Longxiang, a clay artist living in northwest Yunnan’s Dai Dai autonomous prefecture, has been known as “Claymaker Su” because of his life-long love for clay sculptures and excellent craftsmanship.

A total of 16.67 million trips were made in Yunnan province during the just concluded 2021 Spring Festival holiday, bringing in a tourist income of 10.8 billion yuan.

The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China, marking the arrival of a Chinese lunar new year and a renewal of everything on earth. For thousands of years, the ethnic groups in Yunnan province have ushered the grand occasion with diverse customs.

On busy days, the most relieving thing is to drink a bowl of chicken soup. In the Jiangchuan district of central Yunnan’s Yuxi City, native chicken stewed in earthen pot is a nutritious dish favored by locals.

In the summer and autumn each year, the Jietou town sees flowers blooming in fields of immensity, waving slightly in the breeze. Jietou is a garden-like basin that is surrounded by the Gaoligong Mountain in southwest Yunnan’s Tengchong City.

Due to the on-going spread of COVID-19, many expats in China choose to stay where they are for the coming Spring Festival Holiday.

On fine winter mornings, bird watchers world gather at the Yilong Lake in south Yunnan’s Shiping County, meeting the wintering seagulls and offering them food.

Due to the on-going spreading of Covid-19, Chinese people are recommended to stay where they are for the Spring Festival, and many expats in China also choose to stay in the country for the holiday.

Pictures taken by a Yunnan Daily reporter on Feb. 3, the Start of Spring day on traditional Chinese calendar this year, show the blooming tulips in the Kunming-based Daguan(grand view) Park.

Two winter sweet trees recently bloomed recently in the Yutian village, south Yunnan’s Gejiu city, forming an extraordinary sight for visitors. One of the flowering trees is said to be aged at more than 500 years.

As spring approaches the northern hemisphere, the dazzling Camellia flowers have come out in the Hemu village, west Yunnan’s Tengchong city these days, forecasting the coming of the lovely season.

The ambassador, as well as the Myanmar diplomats in Kunming, is a regular customer of the Bailingyuan restaurant in Panlong district of central Yunnan’s Kunming, and the canteen features the Dai ethnic flavor.

The Old Town of Lijiang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwest China’s Yunnan province, has returned to its unsophistication from excessive commercial development thanks to the town’s efforts to incorporate more cultural elements into its tourism development.

Following a rain storm, rolling torrents were “roaring” in the grand Nujiang river valley. As faint jingles of horse bells got increasingly clearer, Li Dehua, a 36-year-old Nu man, showed up.

Recently, toon trees are giving off a luring smell in Huangcaoba of Qianwei Town, central Yunnan’s Yuxi city, sending visitors a quite misleading message that spring has already come.

Photographs taken from Xinhua News Agency show the unique sights of sunshine coupled dreamy with clouds. Fog will fade out within a matter of hours following the sunrise.