Monkeys at a sanctuary in Cornwall were treated to special presents to celebrate Chinese New Year.
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With fireworks crackling and incense burning, families celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year on Monday by eating, dancing and cleaning house. The Lunar New Year festivities are also observed by Vietnamese and Koreans, as well as Tibetans, whose first day of celebration falls on Tuesday.
The Year of the Monkey began on February 8 and the zoo is joining in the celebrations with all sorts of activities running until Sunday February 21.
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese and others around Asia flocked to temples and fairs to pray for good health and fortune on Monday, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
With the countdown for Chinese New Year, preliminary events have kicked off across world in china and Chinatowns all across the world for public celebrations.
How will you celebrate Lunar New Year 2016 today?
President of the Manitoba Chinese Community Centre Fisher Wang says the celebration is tonight in Winnipeg. So, the start of a new moon marks the start of a new year. It is also a time to reunite with relatives, in fact many people visit their families at this time of the year. “The Chinese invented printing in the Han Dynasty around the year 200”, McCloskey said. (REUTERS/Jason Lee)A pedestrian walks out of an underground passage on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Beijing, China, February 7, 2016. Each year is associated with a different animal: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. In Yokohama’s Chinatown in Japan, people counted-down to welcome the new year.
The phrase “Sun Nien Fai Lok” in Cantonese, and “Xin Nian Kuai Le” in Mandarin, are a closer translation of the phrase “Happy New Year”.
Along the border dividing North and South Korea, Seolnal – Korean Lunar New Year – takes on a memorial air as members of divided families gather near the demilitarized zone in the town of Paju.
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As the world continue to experience challenges with its economy, Chinese consumers are considered the number one catalyst to this which provides massive benefits to other countries.
