With fireworks, lion dancing, temple visits and even robots, more than a billion people across Asia and in diaspora communities welcomed the Year of the Horse on Tuesday. The Lunar New Year marks the arrival of spring and the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar. #yearofthehorse #lunarnewyear #lny Photos by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images; Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters; Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP — Getty Images; Pedro Pardo/AFP — Getty Images; William West/AFP— Getty Images; Dmitri Lovetsky/AP News; Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP— Getty Images; Adam Gray/Getty Images; Chiang Ying-Ying/@apnews and Chan Long Hei/AP News