Fireworks and prayers greet Chinese Year of the Tiger
Fireworks lit up the skies over Beijing’s Forbidden City, Shanghai’s riverfront Bund and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City while in Sydney a traditional lion dance captivated thousands of onlookers. Snow covered rooftops in China’s biggest city, Shanghai, as a cold front swept over the country at the start of the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, the nation’s most important holiday.
Despite rain and near freezing temperatures, the queue at Jing’An Temple, one of Shanghai’s oldest, stretched around the block as people burned incense and prayed for wealth, health and happiness.
