AP PHOTOS: China celebrates Lunar New Year ahead of Olympics

The National Stadium and the Beijing Olympic Tower are lit in red on the eve of the Chinese New Year ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Jan. 31, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The Olympic rings sit on the top of the Beijing Olympic Tower ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A child plays jump rope near lantern decorations for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year on the remnants of a city wall in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A man wearing a face mask printed with a cartoon tiger walks on a street during the Lunar New Year eve in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Signs celebrating the Chinese New Year are seen behind insulated door curtains at the Big Air Shougang ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A woman, left, and her husband, right, from the Shandong province, prepare reunion dishes with their friend at a house as they decided not to go back to their hometown due to recent pandemic travel restrictions during the Lunar New Year Eve in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. People across Asia prepared Monday for muted Lunar New Year celebrations amid concerns over the coronavirus and virulent omicron variant, even as increasing vaccination rates raised hopes that the Year of the Tiger might bring life back closer to normal. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

An Olympic worker holds a paper with a Chinese character for fortune written on it as he poses with Bing Dwen Dwen, the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot, on the eve of the Chinese New Year at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, giant panda cubs play as they make a group appearance at the Shenshuping base of China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas in Wolong in southwestern China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Giant panda cubs born in 2021 were brought out on Monday for an event to mark the upcoming Lunar New Year. (Wang Xi/Xinhua via AP)

An Olympic worker picks up a sign with a Chinese character for fortune written on it on the eve of the Chinese New Year ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A worker carries characters reading "Happiness" for an installation for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year on a pedestrian bridge in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Residents wearing masks pass by Chinese New Year decorations along an alley way in Beijing, China, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A visitor to a retail street poses with cat figures dressed with New Year hats on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year of the Tiger in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)