A customer prays during a “villain hitting” ceremony under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong, on Sunday, March 5, 2023. People holding a grudge may have found a way to release it in Hong Kong’s “villain hitting” ritual. To relieve themselves from a bad mood, customers paid ritual practitioners who work underneath the Canal Road Flyover in Causeway Bay, one of the city's shopping districts, and watched them bashing an image of their target with a shoe. It could be anyone – rival lovers and unfriendly colleagues, or horrible bosses and unlikeable public figures. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A practitioner performs a “villain hitting” ceremony under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong, on Sunday, March 5, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





Police officers and a plainclothes police officer inspect a “villain hitting” booth during a routine patrol under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong, on Sunday, March 5, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A pedestrian passes lines of customer waiting to receive a “villain hitting” ceremony on the day of “ging zat”, as pronounced in Cantonese, which on the Chinese lunar calendar literally means “awakening of insects”, under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong on Monday, March 6, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A practitioner burns a paper with the image of a tiger during a “villain hitting” ceremony on the day of “ging zat”, as pronounced in Cantonese, which on the Chinese lunar calendar literally means “awakening of insects”, under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong on Monday, March 6, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





Customers watch a “villain hitting” ceremony on the day of “ging zat”, as pronounced in Cantonese, which on the Chinese lunar calendar literally means “awakening of insects”, under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong on Monday, March 6, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A view of a highway shot through a glass window during a dust storm in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2023. Skyscrapers disappeared into the haze and air quality plummeted as China's capital was enveloped in a dust storm and heavy pollution on Friday. (Photo by Borg Wong/AP Photo)





Folk artists perform fire dragon dances on a stage on March 11, 2023 in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Cantopop boy band Mirror prepares before an interview with The Associated Press in Hong Kong on Sunday, March 12, 2023. Hong Kong's most popular boy band Mirror, a major driving force behind the revival of the local pop music scene, launched its first English song on Friday, hoping to bring the city's tunes to music lovers globally. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





Fans of Lokman Yeung, a member of Hong Kong boy band “Mirror”, react during the 16th Asian Film Awards red carpet prior to the Ceremony of the Awards, at Hong Kong Palace Museum, in Hong Kong, Sunday, on March 12, 2023. The post-Covid edition of the Asian Film Awards is taking place at Hong Kong Palace Museum for the first time that the Asian showbiz event is held in Hong Kong since Covid hit the city in 2020. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/AP Photo)





This photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows a crane wandering in a pond at a wetland in Jiujiang, in China's central Jiangxi province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A helicopter flies near the art piece “GIANTS: Rising Up” at Harbour City in Hong Kong China, 13 March 2023. The 12-meter-high and 12-meter-wide installation by French artist JR depicts a larger-than-life high jumper floating in mid-air adjacent to Victoria Harbour. It will be displayed until 23 April. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA)





Aerial photo shows the cherry blossoms bursting into bloom in the cherry blossom valley, Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province on March 13, 2023. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman holds a bouquet of flowers upon arriving at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday after a three-year halt during the pandemic as it sought to boost its tourism and economy. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A woman hugs another returning on one of the few overseas flight arriving at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday after a three-year halt during the pandemic as it sought to boost its tourism and economy. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





People walk under cherry blossoms in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on March 14, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Tourists ride on a tourist double-decker bus in the Bund in Shanghai, China on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Primary school students perform dragon dances on a path at a rape flower field on March 16, 2023 in Dexing, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province of China. (Photo by Zhuo Zhongwei/VCG via Getty Images)





People walk raound Ethiopian-American artist Awol Erizku's art piece 0147Gravity” in Hong Kong China, 17 March 2023. The 10-meter tall installation inspired by the funerary mask of ancient Egyptian pharao Tutankhamun is part of Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA)





A man rests in a mall during the World Sleep Day on March 17, 2023 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by John Ricky/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)