What you need to know about Chinese New Year?
Chinese New Year is an important holiday celebrated widely across Asia and around the world at the turn of the lunar calendar. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, which is the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. New Year’s celebrations traditionally start from New Year’s Eve. The last day of the last month of the lunar calendar, until the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month, making this festival the longest on the calendar Chinese. Significant traditions and objects include, for example, donating red envelopes with money, eating certain foods such as jiaozi (ravioli), longevity fish and noodles, and orange / tangerine offerings.
2020 starts “Year of the Rat” on traditional Chinese lunar, which is the first of all zodiac animals. In Chinese culture, rats were seen as a sign of wealth and surplus. Because of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children. Rats are clever, quick thinkers; successful, but content with living a quiet and peaceful life. Although a zodiac’s year is traditionally the most unfortunate, laden with bad omens and mishaps, 2020 will perform reasonably well for the Rat.
Chinese New Year celebration 2020 in New York City
On Sunday February 9 the Year of the Rat was celebrated in Chinatown Sunday at the annual Lunar New Year Parade. AlizéLaVie Magazine was there to capture the most epic moments of this magnificent, joyful and exceptional cultural event.Hundreds of thousands of spectators and thousands of parade-goers participated despite fears over the coronavirus that have impacted businesses in the neighborhood in recent weeks. They came enjoy dragons, floats and seas of red and gold. Colorful confetti lined the streets of Chinatown as Chinese New Year celebrations carried on with symbolic dragons, cultural performances and plenty of energy. Some of the marchers in the parade dressed as rats to celebrate.
They came enjoy dragons, floats and seas of red and gold. Colorful confetti lined the streets of Chinatown as Chinese New Year celebrations carried on with symbolic dragons, cultural performances and plenty of energy. Some of the marchers in the parade dressed as rats to celebrate.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Chuck Schumer were among those attending the parade, which saw Mott Street covered in red and gold confetti and ribbons. “We know in China, so many of our loved ones are facing the challenges of the coronavirus, but we stand together,” De Blasio said.
“We love the fact that so many people come from all around the globe and make our city and our country a better place,” Schumer said.
All leaders ended their speeches with the ceremonial firing of the confetti cannons, sending pieces of colorful paper raining onto the crowds.
Signs of support for the Chinese city at the center of a global virus outbreak marked floats at the Lunar New Year parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Sunday as brightly colored puppets made their way through the streets in front of crowds of onlookers.A banner on one float read “Support Wuhan! Let’s fight the virus together!” Overall everyone had great time and enjoyed this incredible parade and the culture.”
.” We wish you best health, happiness, and fortunes in the Year of the Rat. The tiger is coming in 2021.“
By Alizé Utteryn
