From public parades to traditional dances, here's how countries around the world are celebrating the Year of the Snake.

On Saturday, the Nassau County Office of Asian American Affairs will host a Lunar New Year’s celebration at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post in Brookville. Among other cultural exhibits, visitors can view Chinese calligraphy and sugar painting.

The Lunar New Year marks the beginning of spring and the new year on something called the lunisolar calendar. That's a type of calendar historically used in China that uses the moon and the sun to determine dates.

Red lanterns, stickers, and Chinese knots have been popping up across the country, all in celebration of Lunar New Year, which falls on9.

The Lunar New Year also is an important occasion for spending time with family and to pay respects to ancestors and older family members. Families will come together to practice c

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.

Google is ringing in the Year of the Snake in South Korea and beyond with a Lunar New Year-themed Google Doodle.