Picturing the times

A dancer performs in front of a full-size replica of a Reclining Buddha created by digitaltechnology at a Mogao Caves-themed exhibition at Wuhan University on May 18， 2022，during which many of nearly 100 cultural relics on display debuted. （IC PHOTO）

A flock of homing egrets at sunset in Baodi District， Tianjin. （VCG）

Kindergarten children play African drums in class in Dongying， ShandongProvince， on May 24， 2022. （VCG）

A rider on the six-meter-high “wall of death，” locally knownas a tong stand， at a nightcarnival in Bogor， Indonesia， on April 30， 2022. （ADEK BERRY）

Five children， between six and ten years old， roll old tires on a sand dune in NinhThuan Province， central Vietnam. After collecting as many old tires as they could from the local bike shop， they carried them to the top of the hill and rolled them down. （NGUYEN MINH TU）

Owner of a popular tehtarik （literally“pulled tea” ） shop with a history of 20-plus years makes tea in Selangor， Malaysia， on May 18， 2022. （ZHANG WENZONG）

A farmer looks up and waves at a drone flyingoverhead as he tends to his neat rows ofcabbages in Bali， Indonesia. （JORD HAMMOND）

A light installation powered by individual solarpanels illuminating plastic containers， titled“Rainbow Connection II，”on display outside theMalay Heritage Center in Singapore on April 26，2022. （ROSLAN RAHMAN）