Paramilitary policemen hold confetti launchers in front of a row of red lanterns during a show celebrating the Chinese New Year at Lianhuachi Temple Fair in Beijing,
Worshipers burn incense at the Yonghe Gong, or Lama Temple, in Beijing on the first day of the new lunar year
A Filipino trader blows a horn as he holds an ox doll at the Philippine Stock Exchange at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines.
Performers dressed in traditional costumes dance during a street parade celebrating the Chinese New Year, near Longtan Park in Beijing,
Chinese people visit a giant lantern surrounded with Ox statues on display during the eve of the Chinese New Year in Guangzhou of south China's Guangdong province,
Local residents crowd into Lung Shan Temple in Taipei on Jan. 26 to offer prayers for good luck as part of celebrations to mark the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Ox.
A man touches a statue of a dragon and prays for good fortune at the Baiyun Temple in Beijing on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
A man dressed as the Chinese God of Fortune, right, and a stilts performer in an 8-foot-tall Chinese firecracker costume distribute "red pockets," which contain a small sum of money, to visitors outside a Hong Kong shopping mall to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Ox.
A worker, left, arranges flames of burning incense sticks as people pray at a temple to celebrate the Lunar New Year, Jan. 26, in Shanghai.
Smoke rises from burning incense sticks as a man prays at a Confucius temple to mark the first day of the Chinese New Year in Beijing. Tens of millions of people across China celebrated with temple fairs, fireworks and big family reunions, but the global economic crisis put a dampener on celebrations.
A man lights candles in a temple during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations to mark the Year of the Ox in Jakarta's Chinatown.
A performer dances at a temple fair to mark the first day of the Chinese New Year in Beijing.
Boys cover their ears to protect them from the sound of exploding firecrackers as a dragon dance is performed to celebrate the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district of Binondo in the Philippines.
People watch fireworks to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Tianjin, China
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