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The Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important holiday in China. For Chinese living in the United States, the celebration represents a time for families and friends to come together and renew ancient traditions that include gifts, food and music.
Canada Post and the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto held a stamp launch event for the Year of the Monkey international rate stamps on Thursday in celebration of the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year.
For the second straight year, a publicity video for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala has been presented at Times Square in New York City.
Chinese traditional gifts and crafts are placed in the shops of Chinatown in New York City as Chinese New Year draws near.
The city of Beverley Hills, in the US state of California, recently kicked off a month long celebration to mark the upcoming Lunar New Year.
Max Baucus, the US ambassador to China, expressed New Year greetings to the Chinese people in a short video on Tuesday, four days before the Spring Festival.
As the Spring Festival draws near, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington is gearing up to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year for the first time with a weekend series of performances from Feb 5-8.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington was transformed into a scene of Chinese New Year celebration over the weekend.
People attended a Family Day event to celebrate upcoming Chinese New Year in Washington on Jan 30.
Children play with monkey sculptures during the monkey sculptures installation exhibition at a shopping mall in Vancouver, Canada, Jan 28, 2016.
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