From China to the Philippines to the United States, there are more than one billion people around the world, and they have celebrated Lunar New Year, fireworks, family time and feast on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the first year of the snake will marked the coming of spring.
Known as Seollal in South Korea, and in Vietnam, it is called TET. The beginning of the Lunisolar year is the most important holiday in many Asian countries. In China, it promotes the world’s largest annual immigration. Hundreds of millions of people bravely blocked their roads, railway stations and airports, and many people escaped from major cities to their hometown.
The tradition of the Lunar New Year is different in various countries/regions, but similar topics run through: family age, prosperous rituals and rituals of respecting ancestors and marathon feasts. Many people rushed to the temple and placed traditional food on the altar of the ancestors and the elderly.
In China, children will receive a red envelope as a blessing for relatives. In Southeast Asia, it is believed that the dragon dance that brings good luck, prosperity and rain is held on the street, sometimes even underwater.
This is the way people say goodbye to the year of the dragon and welcome the year of the snake:
