Photo shows the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Tang Xinyi]

North China's Tianjin Municipality is seeing an increasingly strong festive atmosphere as the Chinese New Year approaches.

A fair selling products for the Chinese New Year recently opened on the Ancient Cultural Street Street in the city, offering a wide range of traditional New Year goods such as decorations of the Chinese character "Fu," meaning fortune and luck in English, with the figure of a dragon, the zodiac sign of the upcoming New Year, and Chunlian, also known as Chinese New Year couplets. Products featuring local intangible cultural heritage, including paper cut window decorations and velvet flowers, and auspicious traditional Chinese headwear are particularly popular among young people. The fair will run until Feb. 8.

Photo shows visitors on the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Li Dan]

Photo shows visitors on the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Li Dan]

Visitors shop for New Year decorations on the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Li Dan]

A visitor tries on a velvet flower, an auspicious traditional Chinese headwear, on the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Li Dan]

Two boys try snacks on the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Li Dan]

A visitor tries blowing a sugar figurine on the Ancient Cultural Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [People's Daily Online/Li Dan]

(Source: People's Daily Online)