Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake.

Berry prefers to play with scale when composing an altar—she doesn’t like everything to be the same size. One way to do that is by filling small teacups and rice bowls with incense.

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to pray for good luck in the Year of the Snake.

They gave a small donation for a bundle of incense sticks and lit them ... park in Beijing for the fair at what was the Temple of Earth, a royal altar in imperial times. Elsewhere in the world ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A man holding incense sticks prays on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Lama Temple in Beijing ...