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2. An ethnic Chinese
Malaysian arrives at Thean
Hock Keong temple,
popularly known as Snake
Temple, ahead of the
Chinese New Year
celebrations in Klang
outside Kuala Lumpur
February 5, 2013.
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Worshippers burn incense to pray for good fortune on the first day of Lunar New Year at Dafo
temple in Chongqing, China on February 10, 2013.

4. Passengers gather in the waiting room at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai
on February 2, 2013. The 40-day Spring Festival travel rush is expected to accommodate
about 3.41 billion travelers nationwide during the holiday, including 225 million railway
passengers. (Wu Hong/EPA) # Click to continue

5. A woman wearing a panda costume rides her train back to Cangzhou in Hefei from Beijing.
(Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) # Click to continue

6. Elderly residents from the nearby Kreta Ayer district toss "Yu Sheng" (raw fish
salad) ahead of the Lunar New Year at a restaurant in Chinatown in Singapore
on February 1, 2013. (Edgar Su/Reuters) #

7. A genetically modified and auspicious white snake is displayed at the altar at the the Temple of
White Snakes in Taoyuan county in Taiwan on January 9, 2013, ahead of Lunar New Year.
(Wally Santana/Associated Press) # Click to continue

8. Performers with a 238-meter-long golden dragon dance during Lunar New Year in
Macau on February 10, 2013. (Carmo Correia/EPA) #

9. 'Banh chung' or Rice cakes are gathered before boiling in Tranh Khuc village in suburban Hanoi on
February 6, 2013. Banh chung is a traditional Vietnamese cake which is made from rice, bean, pork
and other ingredients. Having Banh chung during Tet or Vietnamese traditional Lunar New Year is
considered an essential. (Luong Thai Linh/EPA) #

10. Dancers from the Jin Ling Dance School perform in celebration of Lunar New Year before an
NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Brooklyn Nets on February 8,
2013 in Washington. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press) # Click to continue

11. Performers take part in a dragon dance at the Philippine Stock Exchange to mark the start of
the first day of trading in the Lunar New Year in Manila on February 11, 2013. (Jay
Directo/AFP/Getty Images) #

12. A man exits a shop selling Lunar New Year decorations in Hong Kong on February 5, 2013.
(Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)

13. Worshippers gather at Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple on Lunar New Year to offer prayers
and place joss sticks on February 10, 2013 in Singapore. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images) #

14. Shops sell lanterns and ornaments for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Yangon,
Myanmar on January 31, 2013. (Lynn Bo Bo/EPA) #

15. Villagers place dried squid to be roasted over a burning straw bale during a winter festival in
Kitakami village, Niigata prefecture, Japan on February 3, 2013. For the Japanese, early
February marks the beginning of spring according to the lunar calendar. (Everett Kennedy
Brown/EPA) #

16. Workers clean a Buddha statue in preparation for the upcoming Lunar New Year at Satya Buddha
Visudhi Marga temple in Medan, North Sumatra province, Indonesia on February 5, 2013. (Dedi
Sahputra/EPA) #

17. Cambodians buy Lunar New Year items at a street market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on
February 8, 2013. (Mak Remissa/EPA) #

18. Dominicans launch lanterns at Guibia beach, Santo Domingo on February 8, 2013 in
preparation for Lunar New Year. (Orlando Barria/EPA) #

19. A performer during the Lunar New Year parade in central London on February 10, 2013. (Tal
Cohen/EPA) #

20. Folk artists prepare to perform during the opening ceremony of the Spring Festival Temple Fair at
Dragon Lake Park on February 9, 2013 in Beijing. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) #

21. An Indonesian man of Chinese descent holds up a bottle of oil as an offering, as he and others
pray in the smoke-filled Vihara Dharma Bhakti temple on the first day of Lunar New year on
February 10, 2013 in Jakarta. (Ed Wray/Getty Images) #

22. A diver performs a dragon dance during Lunar New Year at Beijing Aquarium on February 10,
2013 in Beijing. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #

23. A performer takes part in the Lunar New Year celebrations at Liberdade district in Sao
Paulo, Brazil on February 2, 2013. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) #

24. Decorations hang for sale in the street for Tet celebrations at a market in downtown Hanoi
on February 5, 2013. (Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images) #

25. Travelers sleep on their seats on the train from Guangzhou to Changchun to return home for Spring
Festival on January 28, 2013. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) #

26. A worshipper burns incense while offering prayers at the Yong He Gong temple in Beijing
on February 8, 2013. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) #

27. People light a sky lantern
in St. Petersburg on
February 9, 2013 during
Lunar New Year
celebrations on February
10. (Olga
Maltseva/AFP/Getty
Images) #

28. Performers dance during a parade in front of Paris City Hall on February 10, 2013 to celebrate
Lunar New Year. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP/Getty Images) #

29. Visitors admire the illuminations during the Zigong International Lantern Festival before Lunar
New Year celebrations in Zigong, China on February 3, 2013. (Associated Press) #

30. An ethnic Tibetan couple prostrates as they pray during Tibetan new year at the Labrang Monastery
in Xiahe county, Gansu Province, China on February 11, 2013. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) #

31. A man wipes the tears of his partner as they prepare to take trains back to their homes outside the
Beijing West Railway Station on February 3, 2013. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #

32. Barbers shave villagers ahead of the Lunar New Year at a market in Juancheng in China's
Shandong province on February 8, 2013. (Stringer/Reuters) #

33. A performer inserts a live snake through his nose and mouth during a performance at the Ditan
Temple Fair celebrating Lunar New Year in Beijing on February 11, 2013. (Petar Kujundzic/Reuters) #

34. Fireworks illuminate the skyline during Lunar New Year on February 9, 2013 in Beijing. (Feng Li/Getty
Images) #

35. Men light fireworks as residents celebrate the start of Lunar New Year in Shanghai on February 9,
2013. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) #

36. Photographers take pictures during fireworks over Victoria Harbor
celebrating Lunar New Year in Hong Kong on February 11, 2013.
(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) #

37. Fireworks explode over
Kek Lok Si temple as
part of the upcoming
Lunar New Year
celebrations on Penang
Island, Malaysia. (Gary
Chuah/Associated
Press) #

38. Villagers over 70 years old practice "Yang Ge", a type of Chinese folk dance for the upcoming
Lunar New Year in Ruicheng, Shanxi province, China on January 19, 2013. (China
Daily/Reuters)#

39. Lunar New Year decorations are displayed on a window at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on
February 3, 2013. (Vincent Yu/Associated Press)#

40. A worker carries circle incense sticks prepared for Lunar New Year celebrations in Tangerang
on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on February 4, 2013. (Achmad Ibrahim/Associated
Press)#

42. A woman originally from North Korea looks north after a memorial service for her North Korean
ancestors near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea on
February 10, 2013, on the occasion of Seolnal, the Korean Lunar New Year's day. (Lee Jae-
Won/Reuters)#

43. North Korean girls join a traditional maypole ribbon dance at Pyongyang's
Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the Lunar New Year on February 10, 2013.
(Jon Chol Jin/Associated Press)#

44. Restaurant workers stop to watch performers celebrating the Lunar New Year as they
pass by the restaurant in Chinatown in Lima, Peru on February 9, 2013. (Karel
Navarro/Associated Press)#

45. Dancers rest before resuming a dragon dance performance to celebrate Lunar New Year in
Manila's Chinatown on February 10, 2013. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)#

46. Viet nam- Ninh Kieu – Can tho –Tet Quy Ty – Feb 8 ,2013

47. Students wearing lion dance costumes perform ahead of
A young girl is seen at the Yan Wo temple during Chinese Lunar New Lunar New Year celebrations in Manila's Chinatown
Year celebrations at Chinatown in Panama City February 11, 2013.
February 8, 2013.
REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
A snake lantern is seen among other Chinese New Year
decorations at Yuyuan Garden in downtown Shanghai
February 4, 2013.
Shop assistants hold stuffed snake toys ahead of Lunar New Year
celebrations at Victoria Park in Hong Kong February 4, 2013.

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Sentosa Island staff volunteers work on a 100m (328 feet) long sand snake People walk past a Chinese decorative drum with a paper-cutting of a snake
sculpture, entitled Glittering Snake Trail by Singaporean sand sculptor ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Ditan Park (the Temple of
JOOheng Tan, during a media preview of the Sentosa Flowers festival on
Singapore's Sentosa Island February 4, 2013. Earth) in Beijing February 4, 2013.Lee
An ethnic Chinese Malaysian
walks past a window decorated
with a dragon sculpture at
Thean Hock Keong temple,
popularly known as Snake
Temple, ahead of the Chinese
New Year celebrations in Klang
outside Kuala Lumpur February
5, 2013.
A worker hangs red lanterns used for decoration ahead of Chinese February 13,
2013
Lunar New Year celebrations in a park in Beijing, February 6, 2013.

49. A man holds a plastic flower as a temple is decorated ahead of the Chinese Lunar
New Year celebrations in Bangkok's Chinatown February 8, 2013.

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A man prays in a temple before the Lunar New Year in Makassar in People burn incense to pray for good fortune on the first day of the Chinese
the Indonesia's South Sulawesi province February 9, 2013. Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing February 10, 2013.
A girl covers her ears while fireworks explode during a lion dance Traders offers a gift to a student wearing a traditional lion costume during
February 13,
2013
performance to celebrate Chinese New Year in downtown Lima Chinese New Year celebrations inside the trading floor of the Philippine Stock
February 10, 2013. Exchange at financial district of Makati city, metro Manila February 11, 2013.

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2013