▲ Participants from Hong Kong perform at the fifth National Fitness Dance Contest in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Thursday.
▲ It's not an optical illusion – the two lakes flanking a road in Yuncheng, North China's Shanxi province, are in two colors. The dark pink lake is inhabited by a special kind of microalgae, resulting in the strong color.
▲ Tourists and local residents participate in a muddy soccer match in Housangyuan village of Wuyi county, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. About 1,000 tourists attended the village's annual tourism festival, which also included fish-catching and bullfighting.
▲ More than 50 whipping top enthusiasts gather to whip a giant top in turn at a plaza in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Sunday. Gao Wei, a local enthusiast, invested 100,000 yuan ($14,992) in the making of the trompo, with the wood being imported from Australia, weighing nearly 500 kg
▲ A woman poses for a photo at the world's largest single-aperture spherical telescope, "FAST", in Pingtang, Guizhou province, on Saturday. The scenic spot was open to visitors on Monday.
▲ A woman in Taipei struggles with her umbrella against powerful winds generated by Typhoon Megi. The large storm with winds of more than 160 kilometers per hour made landfall on Taiwan on Tuesday. Schools and offices were closed and people in dangerousareas were evacuated.
▲ A worker maintains part of a miniature replica of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) Daming Palace on Sunday. The 1:15 scale replica, which is built on the original site of the palace in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, has more than 1,100 buildings. It was opened to the public in 2010.
▲Workers hang a new Mao Zedong portrait on the Tian'anmen Rostrum on Tuesday before celebrations of the National Day.
▲ A memorial ceremony at Beijing Confucian Temple and Imperial College on Wednesdaymarks the 2,567th anniversary of the birth of Confucius. Born in 551 BC, Confucius wasone of the most important philosophers in China's history. Memorial ceremonies began in the second year after the sage's death in 479 BC.
▲ A woman admires a giant grouper at a restaurant in Qionghai, Hainan province, on Wednesday. The 1.76-meter-long fish, which weighs 118 kilograms, was caught by a fisherman in the ocean near Boao and sold to the restaurant for 16,900 yuan ($2,530).