While Lunar New Year’s legislatively recognized holiday status in Washington is recent, some local groups have celebrated the holiday for decades. Here’s what’s going on this year.

The Lunar New Year begins Wednesday, but celebrations around the area are spread over multiple weeks, making it easier to find street parades, lion dances, concerts, family-friendly performances, night markets and new beers.

A grandfather and a grandmother are joyous as they are united with their granddaughter arriving with her mother on a homebound trip at a train station in the southeastern port city of Busan on Jan. 24,