(Yicai Global) Jan. 7 -- Temperatures in many Chinese provinces have slumped since yesterday amid the year's first big cold spell across the country.

A courier was dealing with heavy snowfall in northeastern China's Dalian yesterday as temperatures fell to as low as minus 16 degrees Celsius.

In Liaoning province, the municipal meteorological bureau issued a yellow warning due to the snowy and windy weather that caused some traffic jams.

A tourist was visiting the Palace Museum and Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Yesterday's lowest temperature was minus 17 degrees Celsius in the capital city.

At the Beijing Zoo, a group of monkeys was huddling together for warmth.

A Beijing resident was trying to create a cool photo trick of water freezing into ice up in the air.

The surface of a lake in northwestern China's Xi'an froze amid the dropping temperatures.

Editor: Liao Shumin, Emmi Laine