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Lunar New Year Around The World In 18 Sparkling Photographs
The Lunar New Year, also called Spring Festival or Chinese New Year is a 3,500 year-old tradition celebrated in China and other countries in Asia and beginning with the first new moon of the lunar calendar — that fell this year on January 29. With …