A woman holding a new year poster poses for photos in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Feb. 1, 2016. A charity event of writing Chinese Lunar New Year posters and couplets was held here on Monday to promote traditional Chinese culture and raise charity funds for poverty. [Photo: Xinhua/Nguyen Le Huyen]

Painters show their painting in Kelang, Malaysia, on Jan. 31, 2016. Fifty painters created a 190.5-meter-long painting in seven hours on Sunday, hitting a record in the country. The painting, with eight styles of monkeys, was created to welcome the upcoming Chinese Lunar New year, the Year of Monkey, as well as to mark the good bilateral ties between Malaysia and China. [Photo: Xinhua/Chong Voon Chung]