1 / 4   To prepare for the coming Spring Festival, newly made Chinese sausages, fish and pork were hang-up to dry outside a safari park in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. /VCG Photo

2 / 4   Originated from China's agricultural society, people found this special way to preserve meat by producing Chinese sausages. In many areas, people call sausages La Chang, literally the "12th-lunar-month intestine". /VCG Photo

3 / 4   In times when meat was scarce people only slaughtered animals at the end of the lunar year to celebrate the Spring Festival (lunar New Year in China). Thus, the tradition of making sausages is done during the last month of the lunar calendar. /VCG Photo

4 / 4   Depending on the regions, sausages are made in different flavors because of the seasoning and different methods. Some of the sausages are smoked while others are fermented. /VCG Photo