Lunar New Year celebrations

1. Lunar New Year celebrations

2. A lady takes pictures of firecracker on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu region, China. REUTERS/Stringer

3. Children utilize stopgap winged serpent artist's outfit as they perform before merchants on the eve of Lunar New Year in Manila's Chinatown, Philippines. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

4. A artist is seen within a Chinese lion's head amid the Lunar New Year's eve festivity in Chinatown, in Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

5. People implore at Seng Guan Temple amid the Lunar New Year festivities in Chinatown in Manila, Philippines. REUTERS/Czar Dancel

6. A tyke holds incense sticks at Dharma Sakti sanctuary as she supplicates amid the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Jakarta, Indonesia. REUTERS/Beawiharta

7. A man takes a gander at his telephone as firecrackers detonate on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu region, China. REUTERS/Stringer

8. Dancers play out a lion move before a sanctuary as they commend the Lunar New Year in China Town, in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

9. Children play with sparklers on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu region, China. REUTERS/Stringer

10. Girls ask in a sanctuary amid the Chinese Lunar New Year's celebration in Chinatown, in Yangon, Myanmar. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

11. Children play with fireworks on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu region, China. REUTERS/Stringer

12. A nurture deals with infants wearing Chinese conventional outfits to praise the Chinese New Year at the nursery room of Paolo Chockchai 4 Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

13. Buddhist friars implore inside a sanctuary amid the Lunar New Year's eve festivities in Chinatown, in Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

14. A lady supplicates in a sanctuary amid the Lunar New Year's eve festivities, in Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

15. A kid sits on his dad's shoulders as they visit the Chinese Lunar New Year's celebration in Chinatown, in Yangon, Myanmar. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

16. People blaze incense sticks at a sanctuary as they praise the Lunar New Year in China Town, in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

17. A man asks at a sanctuary to observe Chinese New Year in Nonthaburi territory, on the edges of Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

18. Kim Chi Tran (R), by her child Thai A, searches for the grave of a relative slaughtered amid the Vietnam War, in front of the Vietnamese lunar new year (or Tet) when it is custom to visit the graves of friends and family, at the Viet-Laos national graveyard in Nghe A region, Vietnam. REUTERS/Kham

19. People watch firecracker detonate from a housetop on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, in Mengcheng, Anhui region, China. REUTERS/Stringer

20. People stroll on a road enlivened with Chinese lights to praise the Lunar New Year in Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

21. A man is seen offering merchandise in a beautifications advertise amid Lunar New Year eve in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. REUTERS/Samrang Pring