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Lunar New Year

Many Taipei residents visit the city's historic Dihua Street to buy goods for the Lunar New Year.
Culture
Taiwan and China celebrate Lunar New Year amid vastly different COVID levels
Lantern display at Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai.
Culture
China’s last remaining lantern craftspeople uphold a waning tradition
Smoke in front of a man, with remnants of firecrackers on the ground
Culture
Why a medical interpreter was surprised to see Vietnamese immigrant patients at California hospitals around Lunar New Year
Kelly Wong is one of the lion dance instructors at the New York Chinese Freemasons Athletic Club. Originally founded as a fraternal society, the Freemasons were among the first troupes in Chinatown to train women to lion dance.
Culture
In New York’s Lunar New Year parade, women are breaking barriers as lion dancers
Four members of the Huang family at a Chinese New Year celebration in the show "Fresh Off the Boat"
Media
Millions of Americans celebrate Lunar New Year, but this episode of ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ will be a network TV 1st
Korean grandmas get a surprise drum line performance while waiting for the bus in LA's Koreatown. The drumming celebration is now popular in Los Angeles, but it wasn't so much when it first started there in the late 1980s.
Culture
Koreatown’s ‘ghostbusters’ usher in good luck for the Year of the Goat
A red envelope is given out during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Liverpool, England, on February 22, 2015.
Lifestyle
LGBT couples turn a Lunar New Year tradition into a plea for acceptance
Children look at a light display for Chinese New Year outside Kuala Lumpur.
Culture
Chinese New Year should be a big deal for me. It’s not, and I feel guilty
Birds fly across the sky on a polluted day in Wuhan, Hubei province, on February 16, 2015.
Culture
Where’s the perch? These birds might be flying for longer than they expected