Lunar New Year Celebrated around the World

Fact Lunar New Year Celebrated around the World

Children watch as divers perform an underwater Chinese lion dance on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Aquaria KLCC underwater park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)

Temple goers burn incense Thursday, February 19, 2015 as they pray for health and fortune on the first day of the Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Sheep, at Thien Hau Pagoda in Los Angeles. (Photo by Nick Ut/AP Photo)

Performers take part in a night parade to celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong, Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)

A Malaysian woman and her child give red packet to the lion dance troupe during the lion dance performance on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)

Temple visitors give red packets to the lion dance troupe during the lion dance performance on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)

Firecrackers explode as Lion dancers perform in front of a restaurant at the Chinatown district of Paris, to celebrate the Chinese New Year, in Paris, Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Thibault Camus/AP Photo)

A man shows his child the way to offer prayers on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing, China Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)

A girl covers her ears during the noisy celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district of Binondo Thursday, February 19, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)

A Malaysian prays on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)

Dancers perform a lion dance to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Chinatown in Panama City, Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Arnulfo Franco/AP Photo)

Lion dancers perform in a restaurant in the Chinatown district of Paris, to celebrate the Chinese New Year, Paris, Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Thibault Camus/AP Photo)

People pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, February 19, 2015. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the Chinese New Year, which welcomes the year of the Sheep (also known as the Year of the Goat or Ram), falls on Thursday. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

People pray for good fortune as they hold burning incenses on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

People burn incense as they pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

People pray for good fortune as they hold burning incense on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Tibetan monks perform their ritual prayers on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing, China Thursday, February 19, 2015. Chinese people are celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Sheep. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)

Fireworks explode above the Potala Palace during the celebration of the Tibetan New Year, in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A man bows his head in prayer at the Thean Hou temple on Chinese New Year in Kuala Lumpur, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)

A boy reacts to a lion dancer on Chinese New Year at the Thean Hou temple in Kuala Lumpur, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)

A woman walks under lanterns on Chinese New Year at the Thean Hou temple in Kuala Lumpur, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)

A turtle swims past divers performing the lion dance at the KLCC Aquaria on Chinese New Year in Kuala Lumpur, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)

People pray at Petak Sembilan temple on Chinese Lunar New Year in Jakarta February 19, 2015. (Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)

Devotees light candles during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at the Lungshan temple in Taipei February 19, 2015. (Photo by Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

Devotees offer incense sticks during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at the Lungshan temple in Taipei February 19, 2015. (Photo by Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

Devotees holding incense sticks pray during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at the Lungshan temple in Taipei February 19, 2015. (Photo by Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

A lion dance is performed to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year as visitors watch during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Chinatown in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

A lion dance is performed in front of a Chinese restaurant during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Chinatown in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

A reveller blows fire to celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

A girl and her mother walk through a Chinese portable shrine during the Chinese Lunar New Year at Chinatown in Yokohama, south of Tokyo February 19, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

Lion dance performers ride on an escalator to perform at the trading floor of the Philippine Stock Exchange on the eve of Chinese New Year at Manila's Makati financial district February 18, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

Revellers explode firecrackers as they celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

A reveller wears a mask to celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

Revellers gather near lion dance performers as they celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

Revellers gather near lion dance performers to celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

People perform a dragon dance amidst exploding firecrackers as they celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

A lion dance performer waits for “Ang Pao”, or a money gift, in front of a grocery next to revellers as they celebrate Lunar New Year at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

A fireeater tucks peso bills on his waist which were given by revellers during Lunar New Year celebrations at Manila's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

Firecrackers explode as members of the Chinese community perform a lion dance during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Kolkata February 19, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

Members of a lion dance troupe take part in the celebrations to mark the Chinese Lunar New Year in Kolkata February 19, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

Firecrackers explode as members of the Chinese community perform a lion dance during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Kolkata February 19, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

An art installation called the “Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors” stands in front of the Sydney Opera House February 19, 2015. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)

Members of the public stand and walk next to an art installation called the “Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors” in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge February 19, 2015. The more than two-meter (7 feet) high lanterns, shaped in the form of China's famous terracotta warriors that were unearthed in 1974, are on display as part of Sydney's Chinese Lunar New Year Festival. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)

Members of the public stand and walk next to an art installation called the “Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors” in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge February 19, 2015. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)

An art installation called the “Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors” stands in front of the Sydney Opera House February 19, 2015. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)

A woman carries her child, both wearing traditional red clothes celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A man and woman wearing traditional red clothes celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year take pictures of themselves in Bangkok February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A Chinese tourist with a tattoo of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong takes pictures in Bangkok's Chinatown decorated for the Chinese Lunar New Year February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A woman places another candle celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year at the temple in Bangkok's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Women wearing traditional red clothes celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year have their picture taken in Bangkok's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A woman stands behind statues of goats at the temple decorated for the Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Dancers perform a fire dragon dance in the shower of molten iron spewing firework-like sparks during a folk art performance to celebrate traditional Chinese Spring Festival on Chinese Lunar New Year at the Happy Valley amusement park in Beijing February 19, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

People burn incense as they pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Jade Temple in Shanghai February 19, 2015. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)

Ducks are prepared for traditional dishes as people celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok's Chinatown February 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Members of Philippines's Bacolod City MassKara perform during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

Lion dance troupes perform during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

The Waves Dance Group of Spain performs during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

Performers dressed as the Wealth of God and Sheep during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

Members of Taiwan's Shih Chien University Sung Jiang Battle Array perform during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

Members of France's The Divas perform during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

A child performer takes part in a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

Participants wait to perform a lion dance before a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

A dragon dance is performed during a Chinese New Year evening parade at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district February 19, 2015. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

Performers present a dragon dance during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Sao Paulo February 19, 2015. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)

A woman takes a picture of an installation during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at the Old Town Square in Prague February 19, 2015. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)

Dancers perform a Lion Dance outside a local shop during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Chinatown in Panama City February 19, 2015. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

Dancers perform a Lion Dance as a local bus known as Diablo Rojo passes by in Chinatown during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Chinatown in Panama City February 19, 2015. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

Dancers perform a Lion Dance on the streets during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Chinatown in Panama City February 19, 2015. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

Surinamese citizens of Chinese origin participate in Chinese New Year celebrations at a joint banquet and temple fair in Paramaribo, Suriname February 19, 2015. (Photo by Ranu Abhelakh/Reuters)

Surinamese citizens of Chinese origin participate in Chinese New Year celebrations at a joint banquet and temple fair in Paramaribo, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Ranu Abhelakh/Reuters)

People celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in New York's China Town February 19, 2015. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Performers present a lion dance during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in New York's China Town February 19, 2015. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

People celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in New York's China Town February 19, 2015. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Visitors have a snowball fight at an installation of penguin sculptures on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year during the temple fair in celebration of Chinese New Year, at a park in Beijing, February 20, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Filipinos try to catch sweets and giveaways being thrown at them following dragon and lion dance performances in front of a supermarket at Manila's Chinatown district of Binondo to celebrate the Chinese New Year Thursday, February 19, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)

A Malaysian Chinese ethnic man lights a giant joss stick on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at a temple in Kajang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, late February 18, 2015. (Photo by Azhar Rahim/EPA)

Divers perform an underwater Chinese lion dance on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Aquaria KLCC underwater park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)

A devotee prays on the eve of the Chinese new year at the Lungshan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, February 18, 2015. (Photo by Wally Santana/AP Photo)

A Chinese woman offers prayers on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing, China Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)

Performers take part in a night parade to celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong, Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)

Visitors offer prayers on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)

Fireworks light up a residential apartments during the Chinese New Year's Eve in Beijing Wednesday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)

Filipino dancers perform a Dragon Dance on the eve of the Chinese New Year, in front of the Philippine Stocks Exchange building in Makati city, south of Manila, Philippines, 18 February 2015. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)

Paper money, called spirit money, is burnt in a bucket by an ethnic-Chinese Thai family in a traditional Chinese New Year ritual, believing that they will be passed onto their ancestors, at the front entrance of their shop-house home in Bangkok, Thailand, 18 February 2015. Food is laid on the table at the front of the house in a tradition to placate the mythical beast who is said to come on the first day of every New Year. Thousands of Thais of ethnic Chinese origin join Chinese around the world to celebrate Chinese New Year with customs starting on new years eve, 18 February, ahead of 19 February, the first day of the Year of the Goat. The festival is called also called Spring Festival. (Photo by Barbara Walton/EPA)

Lion dancers are reflected in the window of a restaurant as they perform in the Chinatown district of Paris, to celebrate the Chinese New Year, in Paris, Thursday, February 19, 2015. (Photo by Thibault Camus/AP Photo)

A man walks past a snow-covered large lantern on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year during the temple fair in celebration of Chinese New Year, at a park in Beijing, February 20, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

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