Lunar New Year, or Tết Nguyên Đán (Tết), is Vietnam's most important celebration - a time to honour ancestors, cherish family, and welcome new beginnings.This year, it lasts from 28 to 31 January.

Many Chinese who work in bigger cities return home during the eight-day national holiday in what is described as the world's biggest annual movement of humanity.

Lunar New Year is almost here, and Boston is ready to celebrate. Also called Chinese New Year, the holiday celebrated by China, South Korea, Vietnam and other East Asian countries recognizes the arrival of spring with the start of the new year on lunar calendars,

The Lunar New Year begins Wednesday, according to the lunisolar calendar. And this year it's the Year of the Snake — one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Observed by over a billion people worldwide,