Lunar new year celebrated by ethnic Chinese in Kolkata

Chinese around the world are celebrating this year's Year of the Rooster according to the Chinese zodiac calendar (Photo: PTI/AP)

Indian ethnic Chinese boys wait to perform a lion dance on the first day of Chinese lunar new year in Kolkata (Photo: AP)

An ethnic Chinese couple watches a lion dance procession on the first day of Chinese lunar new year in Kolkata (Photo: AP)

An ethnic Chinese woman offers prayers in front of a prayer altar inside a restaurant on the first day of Chinese lunar new year in Kolkata (Photo: AP)

Offerings are set on a prayer altar before the portrait of a deceased relative inside a restaurant on the first day of Chinese lunar new year in Kolkata (Photo: AP)

An ethnic Chinese girl stands with fruits offered to lion dancers on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year in Kolkata (Photo: AP)

Traditional lion dance marked celebrations in the streets of Kolkata (Photo: PTI)

An Indian ethnic Chinese woman holds joss sticks to place in the cauldron on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kolkata (Photo: AP)

Chinese community people perform to celebrate Chinese New Year in Terite Bazar in Kolkata (Photo: PTI)