Chinese New Year
People pray and place incense sticks in a burner for offerings as thousands (of people)
are crowded in Wong Tai Sin Temple on the first days of the Lunar New Year in HK.
Fireworks light up the Singapore skyline at midnight during the River Hongbao
Festival celebrating Lunar New Year’s Eve on February 2 in Singapore.
Here Ethnic Chinese make up nearly 75% of the population.
Lion dancers and musicians perform beneath decorative red lanterns at Ditan (Temple
of the Earth) Park on the eve of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, China on February 2.
People burn incense sticks in a temple on the eve of the Lunar New Year in Shanghai,
China.
Fireworks explode to celebrate Lunar New Year on February 3 in Beijing.
Girls wearing bunny ears pose for photos at Ditan Park on the eve of the Lunar New
Year in Beijing, China, on February 2. The Year of the Rabbit, fourth among the
twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac, begins on February 3.
Chinese folk artists perform a dance at a temple fair to celebrate the Lunar New year
of the Rabbit in Beijing. The Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring
Festival which is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and
ends with the Lantern Festival on the 15th day.
People perform a dragon dance at a Chinese temple in Jakarta, Indonesia, on February
2 to welcome the Year of the Rabbit. Lunar New Year is celebrated in many parts of
this Islamic country.