This past weekend, revelers around the world celebrated Lunar New Year. While the holiday is commonly known as "Chinese New Year," the festivities span the globe, with fireworks and parades commemorating 2013: the Year of the Snake everywhere from Manhattan to Manila. (Even Psy got into the act.)

Though this year's celebrations have been dampered by a pollution crisis in China and a wave of self-immolations in Tibet, swarms of people still managed to put on quite a show to ring in the new year.

Check out these photos of transnational New Year joy:

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  • Fireworks explode over the Victoria Harbour to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Hong Kong Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

  • Fireworks explode over the Victoria Harbour to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

  • Fireworks illuminate the city's skyline in Hong Kong on February 11, 2013. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Chinese people light fireworks and burn incense at Dafo Temple in the Lunar new year celebrations in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality early Sunday Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo)

  • Fireworks blast on the street corners in Beijing in the wee hours of Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Shen)

  • Participants take part in a dragon dance for the Chinese lunar new year parade through the streets of Hong Kong on February 10, 2013. Chinese lunar new year, celebrated by Chinese communities the world over, falls on February 10 with the beginning of the new moon. (ANTONY DICKSON/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Dragon and lion dancers perform in celebration of Chinese New Year Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 at Chinatown district of Binondo in Manila, Philippines. This year marks the Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

  • Participants take part in the Chinese lunar new year parade in the streets of Hong Kong on February 10, 2013. (ANTONY DICKSON/AFP/Getty Images)

  • A Chinese girl uses a cylinder while performing an acrobatic show at the Dongyue Temple fair during the second day of the Chinese New Year in Beijing Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • A performer takes part in a night parade to celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

  • A Chinese girl eats BBQ lamb sticks at the Dongyue Temple fair on the second day of the Chinese New Year in Beijing Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • A Filipino performer holds a dragon head as they perform in front of the electronic board at the trading floor as part of the celebration of the Chinese New Year Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 in Manila's financial district of Makati, Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

  • A diver performs the dragon dance during the special program for celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year at Beijing Aquarium on February 10, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

  • Performers dressed as mermaids wearing Chinese cheongsam perform in an underwater show at Jakarta's Ancol theme park on February 10, 2013 in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)

  • South Korean rapper PSY, right, performs during a Chinese Lunar New year open house in Penang Island, Malaysia, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Gary Chuah)

  • South Korean singer Psy (C) performs his hit single 'Gangnam Style' during a Chinese New Year concert at an event organised by Malaysia's ruling coalition on the northern island of Penang on February 11, 2013. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

  • A python is shown during a snake display to celebrate the Chinese New Year at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur on February 10, 2013. The Year of the Snake falls across the region on February 10. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Indonesian ethnic Chinese hold incense sticks while praying during Lunar New Year celebrations at a temple in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

  • An Indonesian ethnic Chinese woman holds incense sticks while praying during Lunar New Year celebrations at a temple in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

  • A Filipino-Chinese lights candles while praying inside a Chinese temple in celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district Monday Jan. 23, 2012 in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

  • Spectators watch a fireworks display at the Quezon Memorial Circle in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

  • Members of the Chinese community perform a dragon (L) and lion dance as they celebrate the Chinese New Year in Kolkata on February 10, 2013. (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Members of the Chinese community perform a lion dance as they celebrate the Chinese New Year in Kolkata on February 10, 2013. (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Nepalese workers splash holy color offered by devotees on the Boudhanath Stupa on the first day of the New Year of the Sherpas, the Tamangs and the Tibetans in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  • Nepalese workers get ready to splash holy color offered by devotees on the Boudhanath Stupa on the first day of the New Year of the Sherpas, the Tamangs and the Tibetans in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  • Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks blow ceremonial horns to usher in the Tibetan New Year or Losar with ritual prayers at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/ Ashwini Bhatia)

  • Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Gelugpa sect in ceremonial yellow hats usher in the Tibetan New Year or Losar with ritual prayers at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/ Ashwini Bhatia)

  • A Sherpa community woman burns incense at Boudhanath Stupa on the first day of the New Year of the Sherpas, the Tamangs and the Tibetans in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Members of the three communities in Nepal are welcoming the year of the snake. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  • Members of the Chinese American community, tourists and other New Yorkers celebrate the the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, in New York's Chinatown on February 10, 2013 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

  • Traditional Chinese dancers in the New Year paraded on February 10, 2013 in London, England. (Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

  • Attendees stand and watch performers in Trafalgar Square celebrating Chinese New Year in central London on February 10, 2013. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

  • A man prays at a temple in Shanghai, China on Monday Feb. 11, 2013, on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

  • Temple goers gather to pray on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

  • A man burns joss sticks while praying at a temple in Shanghai, China on Monday Feb. 11, 2013, on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

  • In this Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 photo, North Korean girls play a traditional maypole ribbon dance at Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

  • South Koreans bow to pay to respect for their ancestors in North Korea in front of the barbed wire fence as they celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

  • North Korean refugee Lee Dong-woon, 84, center, and his family members bow to pay their respects to their ancestors in North Korea as they celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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