Writing new year blessings and couplets to welcome the Chinese Lunar New Year. See how people around the world celebrate the most important festival in China.

Students learn to write Chinese calligraphy during a cultural event celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in Minsk, Belarus, Jan. 16, 2020. (Photo by Henadz Zhinkov/Xinhua)

Students write Chinese calligraphy during a New Year gala for Chinese and international youth in New York, the United States, Jan. 19, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

People practise calligraphy at the New Year celebration in Dallas, Texas, the United States, Jan. 12, 2020. (Photo by Dan Tian/Xinhua)

A Ugandan interacts with a Chinese calligraphy artist during a Chinese folk custom fair in Kampala, Uganda, Jan. 12, 2020. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua)