Two couples prepare to pose for their wedding pictures outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 31, 2022. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)

Performing arts titled “Solitude of Silences” by Gimhongsok is staged at Art Basel in Hong Kong, China on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

A model for the Dieyingchongchong collections by Chinese designer Dong Yaer has final makeup applied backstage during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)

People are cooling off at a water park in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, on July 8, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

This photo taken on December 2, 2023 shows pandas eating inside their enclosure at a zoo in China's southwestern Chongqing municipality. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)

A tourist splashes water on the frozen Songhua River on December 18, 2023 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. The water immediately freezes into ice in the frigid air. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

A woman wearing a costume takes selfies while waiting for a photo shooting session in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China on January 5, 2024. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)

A man carrying a woman wades through a flooded road following heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou, Henan province, July 21, 2021. At least 25 people have died in China's flood-stricken central province of Henan, a dozen of them in a subway line in its capital that was drenched by what weather officials called the heaviest rains for 1,000 years. (Photo by China Daily via Reuters)