Traditional red lanterns for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year hang in Ditan park on Feb. 6, 2013 in Beijing, China. Falling on February 10 this year, the Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the 15th day.
- [Lintao Zhang/Getty Images]

A man exits a shop selling Chinese New Year decorations in Hong Kong on Feb. 5.
- [PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images]

Two women look at a display of Chinese New Year items for sale at a street market in Hong Kong on Jan. 31.
- [PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images]

An Indonesian woman walks past Chinese artificial trees for sale at a market in Jakarta on Feb. 6, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
- [ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images]

A Vietnamese woman carries home peach blossoms as people do last-minute shopping ahead of the start of the Lunar New Year, known in Vietnam as Tet, in downtown Hanoi on Feb. 7.
- [HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images]

A model holds a snake during a display to promote responsible breeding and pet ownership in Hong Kong on Jan. 10. The Chinese new year, often referred to as the Lunar New Year, will mark the year of the snake on February 10.
- [PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images]

Volunteers give the finishing touches to a snake sand sculpture exhibited at Sentosa Island's Palawan beach off Singapore on Feb. 4. The sand snake sculpture, decorated with colored dye, took approximately 240-man-hours to create and is on display in conjunction with Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year.
- [ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images]

Thai women stand near multi-color Chinese lanterns on display for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Feb. 7.
- [PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images]

Sea lion "Jay" paints a Chinese character reading "the Serpent" at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2013. The event, marking the forthcoming Chinese lunar calender year of the snake, was held as part of a New Year's attraction.
- [KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images]

This picture taken on Jan. 26, 2013, the first day of the Chinese New Year travel season, shows a woman wearing a panda constume sits in her train back to Hefei from Beijing. She said she wanted to feel the special atmosphere of the holiday by traveling this way.
- [/AFP/Getty Images]

People sleeping on their seats on the train from Guangzhou to Changchun on Jan. 28 to go back home for the Lunar New Year. Passengers will log 220 million train rides during the 40-day travel season as they criss-cross the country to celebrate with their families, but just as making the trip home can be laborious.
- [BAI SHI/AFP/Getty Images]

Villagers in festive dress march during a procession to mark Kitchen God Day, part of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year or Tet, in dowtown Hanoi on Feb. 3. Vietnamese tradition says that Tet marks the time when the Kitchen God reports on their family to the Jade Emperor. Families usually burn gold leaf paper and offer live carp for him to ride.
- [HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images]

School children react to a diver dressed as the God of Fortune, a popular figure in the Lunar New Year, in an aquarium at Underwater World Singapore on Sentosa's Island resort on Feb. 5.
- [ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images]

Brazilians in costume take part in the Chinese lunar new year celebrations in the Liberdade district of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 2.
- [YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images]

The dragon dance is performed during the Chinese lunar new year celebrations in the Liberdade district in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 2, 2013.
- [YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images]

A dragon dance team trains on Feb. 6 in a Paris gymnasium ahead of the traditional Chinese New Year festivities.
- [PIERRE VERDY/AFP/Getty Images]

Customers look at Chinese lanterns at a market in Shanghai on Feb. 6, ahead of the Lunar New Year.
- [PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images]

Chinese people decorate Ditan park to greet the New Year on Feb. 6 in Beijing, China.
- [Lintao Zhang/Getty Images]