Worldview: China Daily Life

For today’s installment of AP’s Worldview: Daily Life series, we focus on China.

From Chinese trishaw drivers taking a nap while waiting for customers, to residents setting off fireworks marking the end of the lunar new year celebrations, photographers Ng Han Guan, Andy Wong, Alexander F. Yuan, and Eugene Hoshiko capture everyday life in China.

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A performer beats on drums during the Duanwu festival also known as the Dragon Boat festival held in Beijing, China, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The festival originated in China and is marked with eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Residents set off fireworks to mark the end of the lunar new year celebrations in Beijing, China, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman adjusts a red scarf covering her head and face as she walks down a street on a hazy day in Tianjin, China, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

In this Aug. 25, 2013 photo, residents enjoy the spring water at a pool in Jinan in eastern China’s Shandong province. Also known as the city of spring, Jinan’s residents gather around the numerous springs in the city to collect water and cool off from the summer heat. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A Chinese woman uses a smartphone in Beijing Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese trishaw drivers take nap while waiting for customers at a hutong alley near the drum tower, a tourist spot in Beijing, China Wednesday, May 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Chinese man looks for blooming plum blossoms to photograph at a public park in Beijing Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A plastic bag flies over residential buildings as the sunsets in Beijing, China Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A security guard stands in front of lights set up as part of an ice carvings festival held inside the Worker’s Stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Seen through a window of a beacon tower, part of the Great Wall is covered in snow in Luanping, in northern China’s Hebei province, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Chinese women practice a pushing hands, known as “Tuishou,” part of a Chinese Taichi martial art technique, in the morning exercise at Ritan Park in Beijing Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Chinese woman holds a toy gun on her shoulder while she dances at a square outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Local residents in the capital city frequently gather at public squares or parks to take part any performances their daily fitness activities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese shoppers take a rest on cushions placed underneath parasols which displayed at a shopping mall as a fashion brand promotion in Beijing Sunday, June 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

An elderly Chinese woman carries a baby piggyback in a traditional basket on the outskirts of Chongqing, China, Tuesday March 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Visitors look at the portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A child walks on a shadow casted on the floor at a shopping mall in Beijing, China Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A woman hugs a terracotta warrior replicas as she post for a souvenir photo at the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi’an, in central China’s Shaanxi province Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Thousands of terracotta soldiers that were buried in the tomb of the Emperor Qin Shihuang, who ruled China between 221-210 B.C., are displayed in Xi’an. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Tibetan child looks up as he waits for his parents who are offering prayers near the historic Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu Province, China Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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