A shopper touches a giant statue of an Ox at a shopping mall in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo Lai Seng Sin/AP.
Dancers dressed in traditional Chinese costumes perform a lion dance at the opening ceremony of a temple fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing, China. Photo Elizabeth Dalziel/AP.
Dancers dressed in traditional Chinese costumes perform at the opening ceremony of a temple fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing, China. Photo Elizabeth Dalziel/AP.
Tourists walk underneath the Chinese traditional lanterns on display at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo Lai Seng Sin/AP.
Two Chinese Lions perform during the celebrations of the Chinese New Year in Lima,Peru. Photo Karel Navarro/AP.
Shoppers look for Chinese New Year decorations at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo Lai Seng Sin/AP.
Dancers dressed in traditional Chinese costumes perform a lion dance at the opening ceremony of a temple fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing, China. Photo Elizabeth Dalziel/AP.
Chinese performers prepare to take part in the entertainment at a temple fair on Chinese New Year in Beijing, China. Photo Elizabeth Dalziel/AP.
A Chinese woman, centre, photographs performers at the opening ceremony of a temple fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing, China. Photo Elizabeth Dalziel/AP.
Buddhists rush to stick incense sticks in an urn at a local Chinese Buddhist temple in Singapore. Photo Wong Maye-E/AP.
Buddhists rush to stick incense sticks in an urn at a local Chinese Buddhist temple in Singapore. Photo Wong Maye-E/AP.
Visitors look at fireworks during the Chinese New Year light up ceremony at Kek Lok Si Buddhist temple in Penang Island, Malaysia. Photo Gary Chuah/AP.
An elderly couple sits under lantern sculptures of mandarin orange trees as they gather to usher in the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Singapore. Photo Wong Maye-E/AP.
Celebrations for the Chinese Lunar New Year, which fell on January 26. Photos from AP.
