Residents watch the lanterns during the celebration of Chinese Lantern Festival in New Zealand's Christchurch, March 2, 2013. Ancient Chinese traditions mingled with contemporary folk-rock, acrobatics and kung fu tea-pouring as the 2013 Christchurch Lantern Festivals welcomed in the Year of the Snake on Saturday.

Residents watch the lanterns during the celebration of Chinese Lantern Festival in New Zealand's Christchurch, March 2, 2013. Ancient Chinese traditions mingled with contemporary folk-rock, acrobatics and kung fu tea-pouring as the 2013 Christchurch Lantern Festivals welcomed in the Year of the Snake on Saturday.