Lunar New Year 2015: 23 dazzling pictures of the Year of the Goat celebrations
Even Google is celebrating Chinese New Year
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Your support makes all the difference.The Chinese Lunar New Year begins tomorrow on 19 February and celebrations for the year of the goat, also known as the year of the sheep or ram, are already underway in China and across Asia.
New Year’s Day in the lunar calendar is the most important holiday in China and is a public holiday in countries such as Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia where there are large Chinese populations.
Parades, reunions, dinners and dragon dances will all feature in the New Year holiday, although the Chinese government has asked citizens to avoid setting off their own fireworks this year to avoid adding to China’s escalating pollution problems.
Known as Tet in Vietnam, Seollal in South Korea, and also known as the spring festival, the holiday catalyses the largest human migration in the world each year as migrant workers, students and faraway family members make their way home to celebrate.
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