September 23 marks this year's Chinese farmers' harvest festival, and a range of activities are being held across the country to celebrate the bountiful harvest.
Established in 2018, the festival coincides with the autumnal equinox each year, which is one of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar and usually falls between September 22 and 24 during the country's agricultural harvest season.
Farmers use corn to form the Chinese characters for "harvest festival" in a suburb of Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, September 22, 2021. /CFP
Farmers in Xinba Village, Haian City, east China's Jiangsu Province, display vegetables they planted to welcome the farmers' harvest festival, September 21, 2021. /CFP
In Shuiguo Town, east China's Shandong Province, locals carry bags of rice while competing in a race ahead of the festival, September 22, 2021. /CFP
Farmers from Taizhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, perform a dragon dance to celebrate the upcoming farmers' harvest festival, September 22, 2021. /CFP
In Jiuquan City, northwest China's Gansu Province, farmers introduce local agricultural products to tourists at a county fair in celebration of the farmers' harvest festival, September 21, 2021. /CFP