Cheng Bingshou, a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor, carves moulds for the head of a dragon boat as the Dragon Boat Festival approaches on May 17, 2024 in Yongzhou, Hunan Province of China. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, Dao County in Yongzhou City, known as the "Hometown of Dragon Boats", has begun to build a batch of new dragon boats to welcome the annual dragon boat race. (Photo by Jiang Keqing/VCG via Getty Images)





Spectators watch a film from boats during the Muyuna Floating Film Festival, showcasing films from countries with tropical forests, in the Belen neighborhood of Iquitos, Peru, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd)/AP Photo





Pilgrims gather around the effigy of the Rocio Virgin during the annual pilgrimage in El Rocio village, on May 20, 2024. El Rocio pilgrimage, the largest in Spain, gathers hundreds of thousands of devotees in traditional outfits converging in a burst of colour as they make their way on horseback and on board decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside. (Photo by Cristina Quicler/AFP Photo)





This handout picture taken and released by the Taiwan Presidential Office on May 15, 2024 shows Taiwanese Drag Queen Nymphia Wind (in yellow) and her team pose for photographs at the Presidential Office in Taipei. (Photo by Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via AFP Photo)





A horseman, wearing a decorative bull mask, and mounted on a prancing horse, attends the Feast of the Divine celebrations, backdropped by the Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, as part of the “Cavalhadas” festival, in Pirenopolis, Goias state, Brazil, Saturday, May 18, 2024. The tradition of the “Cavalhadas” or masked horsemen's festival was brought to Brazil in the 1800s by a Portuguese priest to celebrate the “Holy Spirit” and to commemorate the medieval victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)





Garland Day Celebration In Castleton, Derbyshire on May 29, 2024 sees a framework of cut flowers prepared by local villagers placed on the head of the King (John Turner) then paraded around the town on horseback dressed in Stuart costume. Garland day dates back to the 1700Os and though its true origins are not fully understood it is believed to be an ancient fertility rite with Celtic connections. (Photo by Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News)





This long exposure photo taken on May 14, 2023 shows Mount Merapi spewing lava onto its slopes as seen from Srumbung, Central Java. (Photo by Devi Rahman/AFP Photo)





The plaintiff who goes under the name of 'Brigitte' for safety reason arrives for the appeal trial of Swiss leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan over charges of rape and sexual coercion at Geneva's courthouse on May 27, 2024. Tariq Ramadan was acquitted in first instance. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





Candidates dance on the stage during the Miss Ivory Coast France beauty contest in Paris, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





British singer-songwriter and dancer FKA twigs (R) at Boom Met Gala After Party hosted by FKA Twigs in Manhattan, New York on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A handler brushes her dog during the junior showmanship competition at the 148th Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. (Photo by Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo)





British actress Jasmine Jobson blows kisses as she arrives for the screening of the film “Bird” at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 16, 2024. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





American singer, actress, and television personality Kelly Rowland arrives for the screening of the film “Marcello Mio” at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Antonin Thuillier/AFP Photo)





Mourners attend the funeral of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran on May 22, 2024. Huge crowds of Iranians thronged the streets of the capital Tehran on May 22 for the funeral procession of president Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Revellers at the Bearded Theory music festival at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England on May 25, 2024. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Redferns)





A woman holds her snake during the procession of St Dominic in the village of Cocullo, central Italy, on May 1st, 2024, as part of the traditional festival of the “Serpari” (snake catchers). All the snakes found days before the festival are identified with a microchip, measured, weighed and subjected to laboratory tests by biologists as part of a study on the sensitivity of snakes to seismic movements. Each first of May the small village of Cocullo honors St. Dominic di Sora, patron saint protecting against snakebites and toothache. (Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP Photo)





A cargo plane sits on a flooded runway at the airport in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Diego Vara/Reuters)





People erect a 40 meter high maypole, a long-standing tradition of the German countryside, celebrating the beginning of spring, with the help of wooden poles, in Glentleiten, Germany on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Angelika Warmuth/Reuters)





Israelis visit a memorial site for the victims killed and kidnapped by Hamas, during Israel's annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of nationalistic attacks, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday, May 13, 2024. Israel marks its annual Memorial Day under the shadow of the October 7 attacks, the ongoing hostage situation and the war in Gaza. (Photo by Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)