The Sharing China - Happy Chinese New Year Contest 2020 is calling for entries from all over the world!
Regardless of whether you are a professional or an amateur, or even who you are or where you are from, you are welcome to send us photos of memorable moments from Chinese New Year celebrations.
Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the most important traditional festival for Chinese people. Grand celebrations take place all over the world during the festive days, with traditions passed down over centuries, such as family reunions, New Year fireworks, temple fairs and performances, as well as enjoying dumplings and local delicacy feasts.
The entries will be scored and all winners will be awarded prize money.
To learn more and submit your entries:
http://en.chinaculture.org/2020sharingchina/index.html
Awards and Prizes
The contest will select 100 photos (single or group).
★ First prize: 10 photos (single or group), with 3,000 yuan in prize money for each winner
★ Second prize: 30 photos (single or group), with 2,000 yuan in prize money for each winner
★ Third prize: 60 photos (single or group), with 1,000 yuan in prize money for each winner
The organizer will deduct any taxes on the award money and pay the authorities on behalf of the winners.
When
Starting December 20, 2019
Submission deadline: February 29, 2020
Who can submit
Anyone is welcome to submit photos of wonderful moments from Chinese New Year celebrations, regardless of whether you are a professional or amateur, or even who you are or where you are from.
Hosts and Organizers
Host: The Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China
Organizers: Centre of International Cultural Exchange, Chinadaily.com.cn
Co-organizer: Chinaculture.org
Supported by China Photographers Association
The rules
1. All photos of Chinese New Year celebrations are welcome. Suggested themes include:
(1) Traditional customs, such as paying respects to ancestors, cleaning the house and New Year's Eve dinner.
(2) Modern customs and new trends, such as the Spring Festival travel rush, giving out or receiving mobile red envelopes, or traveling.
(3) Folk activities, such as dragon dances, lion dances, yangko dances, folk theatrical art or local folk customs.
(4) Foreigners experiencing Spring Festival, celebrations around the world or anything that reflects the integration of the festival and local life.
2. All entries must be real and not doctored or photo edited. The tone and color of the image may be slightly adjusted. Composition and clipping are allowed.
3. Entries should be in JPG or JPEG format with a resolution of 300 dpi, no less than 2 MB, with the length no less than 3,000 pixels.
4. Entries can be single photos or a series of photos. A series of photos counts as one entry and each series may contain four to ten photos.
5. Entries should have titles and a short photo description (such as time, place and people in the photo). Please provide a personal email account and a phone number so that we may contact you.
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The final word
1. The entries should not contain any pornography, violence or reactionary elements and should obey the laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China.
2. The author owns the copyright and enjoys the right of authorship of the entries. Once the entries are submitted to the contest, it means that the author has agreed that the Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China has the right to use their works in other cultural activities or cultural products, such as exhibitions, screenings, publications, posters and photo album designs. The host also has the right to recommend the works to related media and will not pay the author for use.
3. All participants should guarantee their ownership of copyright for the entries, or that they have the right to authorize the entries' use in competitions, promotions and screenings. The author(s) should promise that all legal responsibilities and economic losses shall be borne by himself (themselves), including but not limited to results of the products' infringement of intellectual property, portrait rights and reputation rights, defamation and other violations of laws and regulations.
4. All applicants should ensure the authenticity and accuracy of the filed content in the application form. The organizing committee will not be responsible for any errors or misunderstandings caused by incorrect, incomplete or inauthentic filings.
5. All submitted entries will not be returned. Please create backups beforehand.
6. Once the winning entries are announced, the organizing committee will contact winners for their personal information and bank information to send remuneration; if the participant refuses to provide personal and bank information, or does not provide the requested information within the stipulated time, the winner will be disqualified.
7. Entries that don't meet the requirements above will be disqualified.
8. By submitting an entry to take part in the contest, the participant agrees to accept these rules.
9. The hosts have the right of final interpretation of the rules.
Previous excellent works:
Give me five! Photo taken in Lisbon, Portugal, Feb 11, 2018. [Photo by Liu Xiaolan]
The Sydney Opera House goes “China Red” for the Chinese New Year, Sydney, Australia, January 2017. [Photo by Zeng Hanchao]
Russians take part in yangko dancing together with Chinese in February 2018 in Moscow, Russia. [Photo by Wu Zhuang]
Cheerful children watch a lion dance performance at the Batur Temple Bali in Indonesia. [Photo by Tjandra Hutama Kurniawan]
The New Year Gala event held at the Harbin Ice-snow World on Jan 11, 2017. [Photo by Geng Hongjie]
A time-honored brand successor shows his skills in sugar-figure blowing at the temple fair on Feb 20, 2018. [Photo by He Jun]
During Spring Festival, residents in Zhejiang province enjoy a local opera performance. [Photo by He Yixun]
Fireworks light up the sky of the old village on the day of the Lantern Festival on March 5, 2015, in Shandong province. [Photo by Ji Tiansheng]
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