Bern Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Chinese New Year celebrations around the world – in pictures From Beijing to Bangkok, Stockholm to London, communities around the world get ready to celebrate the Chinese New Year and welcome in the year of the snake Trees are decorated with red lanterns ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations at Ditan Park in Beijing. The New Year – the year of the snake – falls on 10 February this year. Ancient Temple Fairs are a highlight of the city's celebrations, lasting for days with parades, acrobats, opera singers and plenty of traditional foods A Chinese actor is dressed as a Qing Dynasty servant during a rehearsal of an ancient Qing Dynasty ceremony for the upcoming Chinese New Year event at Ditan Park in Beijing Shop decorations go up in London's Chinatown as they get ready to celebrate the year of the snake. The city's celebrations will kick off on Sunday 10 February with a procession to Trafalgar Square, with highlights including a concert with performers such as the Chen Brothers Flying Lion Dance and Hong Kong-born singer Emmy The Great, ending with a fireworks display. See chinatownlondon.org/ for details A man browses Chinese Lunar New Year lanterns at a shop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia People handle genetically modified, auspicious, white snakes on the altar at the Temple of White Snakes in Taoyuan county, in north-western Taiwan In Surakarta (Solo) in Central Java, Indonesia, the minority Chinese population mark New Year a week earlier with a celebration called Grebeg Sudiro. Here they present a display of cone-shaped offerings of crops and cakes Women of Dong ethnic group in Kaili, Guizhou province, China, make new clothing made from handmade cloth traditionally worn to welcome in the New Year A calligrapher works on Chinese New Year greetings on Charoen Krung Road in Bangkok's Chinatown. Chinese New Year is not an official public holiday in Thailand, but the festival is a huge celebration for both the city's large Chinese population and those of non Thai-Chinese descent. Festivities in Bangkok will centre on and around Yaowarat Road in the heart of Chinatown, where this year's highlights include a Tibetan performance A young girl views festive lanterns in the build up to the new lunar year in Changsha, China Around 200 Filipino dancers perform a Chinese dragon dance for the upcoming New Year festival in Chinatown, Manila, Philippines. Lucky charms, fortunetellers, symbols, firecrackers, and varieties of reds flood the streets for days before the celebration Workers carry a giant candle to a Buddhist temple in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta as the Muslim majority country's minority Chinese-Indonesians prepares to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year Performers from China's Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Art Group prepare before a gala to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Stockholm, Sweden. The city's East Asia Museum will mark the festival with a parade, calligraphy workshops, dragon painting and a concert Source: http://www.guardian....3733843&index=0 iamziz 1 Join the official BW Telegram Group Chat: https://bit.ly/frmbw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yhtang Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Nice photos, thanks for compiling and sharing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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