CLEAN : Taiwanese pray for good luck

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China saw-in the lunar New Year with a boom, with the traditional ringing of Beijing's 550-year old, 46-ton bell. Outside the Great Bell Temple, festivities at...

MS Taoist do religious rites with pilgrims to pray for good luck in grand hall of temple during Chinese Lunar New Year AUDIO / xi'an, shaanxi, china

CU ZO TU Pilgrims circle round wishing well to touch stone lion and drop money pray for good luck during Chinese Lunar New Year at Taoist temple / xi'an, shaanxi, china

MS Pilgrims praying for good luck and putting money into donation box during Chinese Lunar New Year at Taoist temple / xi'an, shaanxi, china

MS Taoist do religious rites with pilgrims to pray for good luck in grand hall of temple during Chinese Lunar New Year AUDIO / xi'an, shaanxi, china

MS Pilgrims touching stone tortoise pray for good luck during Chinese Lunar New Year at Taoist temple / xi'an, shaanxi, china

Pierced Mediums in a trance, walk in a street procession during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

Mediums get pierced at a temple during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

Mediums and devotees walk on burning coals during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

Mediums and devotees walk on burning coals during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

Mediums and devotees walk on burning coals during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

A medium swings an axe into his back during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

A medium's lip is broken through while being pierced before a parade during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

Pierced mediums walk in a parade during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand.

Priests play small cymbals during a ceremony in the Bai Yun Guan Temple in Beijing.

A monk adds long incense sticks to a temple trough in Beijing.

Priests play instruments during a ceremony in the Bai Yun Guan Temple in Beijing.

A bunch of four leaf clovers bubbling in the corner of the screen. Perfect for St. Patricks day title shots or slide shows.

Priests perform a ceremony at Bai Yun Guan Temple in Beijing.

Taoist monks play instruments as incense wafts through the Bai Yun Guan temple in Beijing.

Taoists kneel in the Baiyun Guan as they chant.

A book of scriptures lies open on a platform in the Bai Yun Guan Temple in Beijing.