Lunar New Year, a holiday celebrated by more than 1 billion people around the world ... It is a largely secular holiday but includes cultural rituals that derive from Confucianism, Buddhism ...

To mark the Lunar New Year people spend time with family and pay respects to ancestors and older family members. Families come together to practice cultural customs and eat feasts. Chinese New ...

Lunar New Year kicked off on Jan. 29 this year ... It’s all about building “people-to-people friendships” across cultures, Ng said, especially during a time of rising political tensions ...

The Korean Cultural Center in Thailand hosts '2025 Seollal (Lunar New Year ... meaning all things newly start. I hope many people come to participate and experience Korean New Year’s Day." ...

In diaspora communities, particularly in cultural enclaves ... Some Indigenous people also celebrate Lunar New Year this time of year, including members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group.

Lunar New Year is the focus for weeks in Asian cultures, as people put away the past year by settling debts, mending relationships and “sweeping away the dust” to optimistically usher in ...

Happy Year of the Snake! Seattle’s Chinatown International District wraps up the Lunar New ... people to see us, not to avoid us,” Liang said. “The CID and Little Saigon, we’re cultural ...

BEIJING--Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday — including in Moscow. Hundreds of people lined up in the ...