A Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in La Paz, Bolivia, on Jan. 26. (Juan Karita/AP) A worshipper at Gayatri temple in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Chicago heralds the Lunar New Year, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake. People cheer as a lion dance is performed in the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown on Feb. 9, 2025.

Every year in late January, streets transform into a sea of red — lights, lanterns, and even little kids dressed in festive hues signal the start of Lunar New Year celebrations. A traditional ...

Lunar New Year, which is celebrated approximately for two weeks, was celebrated during a Greece school district event.

More than a billion people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year. A traditional lion dance performance in Beijing on Wednesday.Credit...Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Supported by By Yan ...

All across the world, people are starting the Lunar New Year off by bidding ... uphold traditions that focus on welcoming a new year with their best foot forward. As NPR readers shared, there ...

Maison Miru founder Trisha Okubo says that the best Lunar New Year gifts are those that symbolize good luck, abundance and prosperity: “Think foods, flowers or plants, and the gift that can’t ...

A dragon is held up by performers from the Chinese American Association of Minnesota Chinese Dance Theater while they perform the Dragon Dance during a Lunar New Year celebration at Asia Mall in ...

By , Feb. 18, 2025 Lunar New Year, the gathering of communities from Jan. 29 to Feb.12 for lavish festivals and timeless traditions, marked the beginning of one of the biggest cultural holidays of the ...

Librarian Susan Monroe talks about Lunar New Year and the Year of the Snake project for children Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, at the Emmaus Public Library. The library held a celebration featuring ...

(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images) A Chinese temple in the Chinatown area of Yangon, Myanmar, on the first day of the Lunar New Year. (Sai Aung Main/AFP via Getty Images) A Chinese Lunar New ...