Photos: Cold snap hits east Asia

A mother and daughter play in the light snowfall on a tea plantation in the Pinglin mountain area of New Taipei City, Taiwan, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

A woman plays in the light snowfall on a tea plantation in the Pinglin mountain area of New Taipei City, Taiwan, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

Snow sits on the Chinese god statues at the Pinglin temple in the high mountain area of New Taipei City, Taiwan, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 photo, a woman walks on a step-stone bridge in front of Megane Bashi or the Spectacles Bridge, one of the oldest stone bridges in Japan, in snow-covered Nagasaki, southern Japan.