Lunar New Year prayers and festivities usher in the Year of the Horse

People are marking nan Lunar New Year connected Tuesday pinch prayers, fireworks and festivities.

The activities ushered successful nan Year of nan Horse, 1 of 12 animals successful nan Chinese zodiac, succeeding nan Year of nan Snake.

The Lunar New Year is nan astir important yearly vacation successful China and immoderate different East Asian nations and is celebrated extracurricular nan region, too.

Temple crowds astatine midnight successful Hong Kong

Incense fume wafted into nan aerial astatine a temple successful Hong Kong wherever group statement up each twelvemonth to make wishes for nan caller twelvemonth astatine midnight.

Holding up a cluster of incense sticks, galore bowed their heads respective times earlier planting nan sticks successful containers placed successful beforehand of a temple hall.

Fireworks ray up skies successful Vietnam

Entertainers successful Vietnam sang astatine an outdoor countdown arena earlier aggregate fireworks shows astatine respective cities successful nan Southeast Asian nation, wherever nan show is called Tet.

Light shows lit up bridges and skyscrapers arsenic nan fireworks went disconnected and crowds clapped successful hit to unrecorded popular euphony performances.

Chinese thoroughfare fairs successful Moscow

People sampled Chinese cuisine from stalls and strolled on snowy streets dressed up pinch reddish lanterns and dragons arsenic 2 weeks of events sewage underway Monday astatine various venues successful nan Russian capital.

The 3rd yearly Lunar New Year ceremony comes astatine at clip of warming relations betwixt China and Russia — ties that person disappointment galore European governments because of nan warfare successful Ukraine.

A temple doorbell rings 108 times successful Taiwan

The intense peal of a temple doorbell rang retired 108 times — an auspicious number — arsenic group flocked to nan Baoan Temple successful Taipei connected Tuesday morning.

They lit incense sticks, bowed their heads and near offerings of colorful flower bouquets connected outdoor tables connected nan temple grounds successful Taiwan's superior city.