Passengers
queue to board their trains at a station in Taiyuan, China, in Shanxi
Province, January 19, 2011.  The annual Spring Festival travel rush is
up 11.6 percent over last year, according to the Ministry of Transport.
(Stringer/Reuters)  #

A man points at the train schedule at Shanghai's railway station February 1, 2011. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)  #

A boy runs to board a train at Guangzhou station January 30, 2011.  (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
passenger sleeps in a train from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, to Baotou,
a city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the Beijing West
Railway Station January 28, 2011. January 19 marked the beginning of the
annual Spring Festival travel rush.  (Jason Lee/Reuters) #

A
woman carries a sleeping child to a waiting area at Guangzhou station
January 30, 2011.  The movement of hundreds of millions of Chinese for
the Lunar New Year, the country's most important holiday, is considered
the biggest annual mass human migration in the world. (Ed
Jones/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
passenger climbs out of the window of a train after arriving at Hefei
Railway Station in Hefei, Anhui Province, January 28, 2011.  
(Stringer/Reuters) #

A
passenger yawns while reading a book in a waiting hall at Beijing's
South Railway Station January 19, 2011.  (Alexander F. Yuan/AP) #

Travelers ascend an escalator at Guangzhou's train station January 30, 2011.  (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) #

Travelers prepare to depart from Guangzhou's train station January 30, 2011.  (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) #

People
arrive at the central railway station in Shanghai January 19, 2011.  
Millions boarded trains and buses across China to journey home for the
Lunar New Year celebrations.  (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) #

Fireworks celebrate Chinese New Year February 3, 2011 in Beijing.  (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) #

A
girl and her father watch as fireworks explode during celebrations in
downtown Shanghai February 2, 2011.  The Chinese Lunar New Year began on
February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to
the Chinese zodiac.  (Carlos Barria/Reuters) #

Workers at a restaurant set off firecrackers to mark the new year in Beijing February 3, 2011. (Ng Han Guan/AP)  #

Fireworks
explode over Xinghai Square to celebrate Chinese New Year February 4,
2011 in Dalian, China, in Liaoning Province.  (Feng Li/Getty Images) #

Visitors
wearing rabbit ear headbands watch a night parade held to celebrate
Chinese New Year in Hong Kong February 3, 2011.  (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) #

Girls
wearing bunny ears pose for photos at Ditan Park on the eve of the
Lunar New Year in Beijing February 2, 2011.  (Frederic J.
Brown/AFP/Getty Images) #

Folk
artists dressed in rabbit costume perform at a temple fair to celebrate
the Lunar New Year February 2, 2011 in Beijing.  (Feng Li/Getty Images)
#

Dancers
perform at the Dongyue Temple as they celebrate the Lunar New Year
February 5, 2011 in Beijing.  (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) #

A
pedestrian crosses a street under illuminated lanterns on the eve of
the Lunar New Year in Shanghai February 2, 2011.  The Year of the Rabbit
began February 3 with fireworks, lion dances and prayers that the bunny
will live up to its reputation for happiness and good fortune in 2011.
(Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
man prays after burning incense sticks at a temple in Shanghai January
31, 2011 ahead of the Lunar New Year.  (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
#

A
woman lights incense to pray for good fortune on the first day of the
Chinese New Year at a temple in Wuhu, China, in Anhui Province, February
3, 2011.  (Stringer/Reuters) #

Residents
gather to make dumplings ahead of Chinese New Year in Beijing February
1, 2011. Dumplings are a traditional food eaten to celebrate the New
Year.  (Ng Han Guan/AP) #

Meals
are served at an event marking the upcoming Spring Festival in a Miao
ethnic group village February 1, 2011 in Xijiang Town, Leishan County,
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in southwest China's
Guizhou Province.  Around 1,000 residents and tourists dined around a
280-meter-long table.  (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)  #

Lim
Neung-man (right), 86, bows in the direction of the North during a
memorial service for ancestors as his son pauses during Seolnal, the
Korean lunar new year day, at Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea
February 3, 2011.  Lim has not been able to visit his hometown since the
Korean War.  The Seolnal is also a time for Korean families to remember
and honor their ancestors and Imjingak pavilion is the closest
residents of the south can get to the border.  (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #

Buddhists
wait to place incense sticks in an urn at a local Chinese Buddhist
temple February 3, 2011 in Singapore.  (Wong Maye-E/AP) #

A
diver wears a rabbit costume symbolizing the Year of the Rabbit as he
swims inside a huge aquarium during a show at the Ocean Park in Manila
January 28, 2011.  (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters) #

A
child touches rabbit-shaped souvenir items for sale during Chinese New
Year celebrations in Chinatown, Binondo, in metro Manila February 3,
2011.  (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters) #

Angelito
Araneta Jr. puts a 0.2-carat diamond on a rabbit-shaped sweet rice
cake, locally known as Tikoy, which he encrusted with 24-carat edible
gold leaf February 2, 2011 in Manila.  The cakes sell for $485 and is
one of 13 ordered by rich Chinese customers for the celebration of the
Lunar New Year.  Araneta Jr. said one customer ordered a two-diamond
gold encrusted rice cake for $2,710, his most expensive so far.  (Bullit
Marquez/AP) #

Cambodian
Chinese perform a dragon dance February 2, 2011, in front of the Royal
Palace ahead of Lunar New Year in Phnom Penh.  (Heng Sinith/AP) #

A man offers prayers at Longshan Temple to bring in the Chinese New Year in Taipei February 2, 2011.  (Wally Santana/AP) #

Worshippers crowd the Xingtian Temple in Taipei February 3, 2011.  (Abe Sitzer/Reuters) #

A vendor shouts out to customers at a Chinese New Year market in Taipei January 30, 2011.  (Nicky Loh/Reuters) #

A pedestrian rests next to a rabbit lantern in Taipei February 1, 2011.  (Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images) #

Visitors
walk among Lunar New Year decorations at Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen temple
in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur January 30, 2011.  (Saeed
Khan/AFP/Getty Images) #

A
calligrapher paints in Hanoi January 28, 2011.  Calligraphy paintings
are used for decoration during Tet, the Vietnamese traditional Lunar New
Year.  (Kham/Reuters) #

Workers steam mooncakes for Lunar New Year in the Tangerang district of Jakarta January 25, 2011.  (Dadang Tri/Reuters) #

Indonesians
release heart shaped lanterns in Jakarta February 5, 2011 in
celebration of Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit.  Lunar New
Year is celebrated in many parts of the predominantly Islamic country of
240 million people where Chinese heritage took root through ancient
transmigration.  (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images) #

Lion
dancers entertain the crowd in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year
parade in Vancouver February 6, 2011.  (Ben Nelms/Reuters) #

Revelers
celebrate Chinese New Year on Mott Street in the Chinatown neighborhood
of Manhattan February 3, 2011.  (Mary Altaffer/AP) #