Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield.

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers marked the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield on Wednesday.

How Asia is celebrating the year of the snake - China expects nine billion trips to be undertaken during holiday period ...

Firecrackers popped, incense was offered at temples and dancers and drummers paraded Wednesday in Asia and farther afield as ...

The period of celebration for Lunar New Year lasts roughly two weeks after Jan. 29. Asia Society Texas welcomes the "Year of the Snake" with a celebration featuring lion dances on the festival ...

The Snake cleverly finished sixth by coiling ... and Yuan Xiao (sweet rice balls). The Lunar New Year is celebrated throughout Asia, with varying traditions. In Korea, Seollal is a time for ...

Celebrated across Asia and beyond, it marks the start of a new year based ... the beginning of a new lunar cycle and ending on the first full moon. The Year of the Snake is the sixth animal ...

The next year of the snake will be in 2037 ... Of those four countries, none of them are in East Asia. Countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year still follow the current Gregorian Calendar ...