Did you try eating jelly with chopsticks or did you set off Chinese lanterns? See who you can spot in this photo gallery.
1. Chopsticks at the ready
Students Sam Tozer and Dean Lambert tried to eat jelly with chopsticks to mark Chinese New Year at West Notts College in 2007 | JPIMedia Photo: Angela Ward
2. Lighting the way
Emma Jackson showed the Chinese Lantern she made at the Chinese New Year event held by the Huthwaite Community Association and Sure Start at the All Saints Cnetre in 2007 to Wang Shuying, from the Chinese Embasey, and Steve Lock Programme Manager for Sure Start | JPIMedia Photo: Roger Grayson
3. Enter the dragon
Mansfield Market Place hosted Chine Art of London performed a Chinese Lion Dance on Saturday to mark the Chinese New Year. Pictured are performers Jason Zhang, left and Yang Nan, right. | JPIMedia Photo: Jane Hilton
4. Creative fun
Members from the Titchfield and Oakham Childrens Centre met up at the Titchfield Park pavillion on Saturday morning to celebrate the Chinese New Year with a morning of dragon, laterns and table mat making and a session of messy play with noodles to bring in the Year of the Tiger in 2010 | JPIMedia Photo: Anne Shelley