More than 1.1 million public elementary and high school students took their first-ever Chinese New Year's Day off for the Year of the Monkey, thanks to years of eff ort by Chinese Americans to have it declared an offi cial school holiday.
Year of the Monkey celebrated across China
Check out the movies to hit screen during Spring Festival.
Actors perform during a parade in Hong Kong, south China, on Feb. 8, 2016, in celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year.
Fourteen-year-old Chen Yiyue, who is half-Chinese, half-French, has always relished the atmosphere of a Chinese Spring Festival celebration.
The Spring Festival, or chunjie in Mandarin, seems to have transformed from the most celebrated traditional holiday in China into an international festival.
Since 1996, CUCSSA has held 19 Chinese New Year galas. HEZI JIANG
A grand show in central London is a perfect nostalgic recipe for overseas Chinese when the most important festival on the Chinese lunar calendar arrives.
Kung Fu Panda 3 was the most-popular movie this weekend topping the North American box office for a second weekend in a row.
Fireworks paint the sky over the Juzizhou Bridge in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, Feb 7, 2016.
Kids learn about the knowledge of monkey during the 2016 Chinese New Year Celebration event at Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto in Toronto, Canada, Feb 6, 2016.
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