A performer wowed the crowd in Beijing with a less-than-appetizing snake act, putting the heads of live reptiles in his mouth during a festival for the Chinese new year.
Celebrations continued across China and the globe with thousands of Lunar Festivals to commemorate the year of the snake.The Lunar New Year remains the most important festival for Chinese people, resembling a Western Christmas with a week long celebration of family reunions, gifts and gastronomic excess.
The snake zodiac is said to bring financial success and a blossoming social life although it has been known to hold bad tidings and is not as loved as the powerful dragon of 2012.
'In Chinese mythology, snakes were often associated with monsters, or with incarnations of monsters, so some political turbulence can be expected,' said Taiwanese astrologer Tsai Shang-chi.In China, some couples have apparently been trying to schedule their pregnancies to avoid having children born during the snake year, in contrast to the coveted 'Year of the Dragon'.
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