Lunar New Year Festivities Come to a Colorful Close in China
China’s celebration of the Lunar New Year came to a colorful close today after two weeks of festivities and pilgrimages. Here, a look at how millions of revelers, from the cities to the provinces, prepared and celebrated the beginning of 2015, the Year of the Goat.
Photo: Getty Images1/17Revelers leave the Ditan Park temple fair in Beijing. Millions observe the Spring Festival, the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar, which this year marks the beginning of the Year of the Goat (or Sheep, depending on whom you ask).
Photo: Reuters Pictures2/17Young performers wearing goat hats at a shopping mall in Hong Kong.
Photo: AP Images3/17Migrant workers in south China’s Pearl River Delta cities begin their annual journey home by motorcycle.
Photo: AP Images4/17A worker checks red lanterns at a factory in Hefei city. Chinese factories produce enormous quantities of red lanterns, used for decorating houses and streets every year.
Photo: Getty Images5/17Artists perform a dragon dance at an amusement park in Beijing.
