Happy Chinese Lunar New Year 2025: Most breathtaking pics of how India and the world welcomed Year of the Snake
Chinese Lunar New Year 2025: People across Asia celebrate with their families on January 29 as they usher in the Year of the Snake. See all the photos.
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Chinese Lunar New Year 2025: A woman burns sticks at the Hong San Koo Tee temple in Surabaya on January 29, 2025, to mark the Lunar New Year of the Snake. People bid farewell to the Year of the Dragon and ushered in the Year of the Snake.(AFP)
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A woman lights a prayer candle at Darma Ramsi Temple to mark the Chinese Lunar New Year in Bandung, West Java, on January 29, 2025. Train stations and airports across many Asian countries have been jam-packed for weeks as millions returned home to spend the holidays with their loved ones.(AFP)
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In Taiwan on Wednesday morning, people of all ages thronged temples across the island to make offerings of fruit, sweets, crackers and nuts, and mediate and pray. A man burns incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake at a temple in Keelung, port city near Taipei, in northern Taiwan. on January 29, 2025.(AFP)
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A woman offers prayers at the Hong San Koo Tee temple in Surabaya, Indonesian island of Java, on January 29, 2025, to mark the Lunar New Year of the Snake. 2025 marks the year of the Snake. The Chinese zodiac calendar is best described as a 12-year cycle represented by 12 different animals - Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig. This means that those born in 2025 will be snakes. In Chinese culture, snakes are considered both the symbols of harvest, procreation, spirituality, and good fortune, as well as cunning, evil, threat, and terror.(AFP)
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