According to the Lunar calendar this year will be year 4705, the year of the pig. This year’s Chinese New Year begins this Sunday, February 18th, 2007. The celebration of the new year continues for fifteen consecutive days, which means the celebration will end on the next full moon. Chinese New Year celebrated in the motherland, China is much more traditional than it is in New York City. Even though there is a difference, the celebrations in New York City are just as ravishing as the ones in China.
There will be many events taking place in Chinatown starting this weekend to welcome the Lunar New Year. For more information please check out: Explore Chinatown’s homepage.
thanks for this link. i have been to chinatown many times, but have not gotten to know it well enough to know fave rest. and bakeries. and i’ve never beent to the lunar new year celebration. i only wish it was not so damn cold.
I enjoyed that info session. Many people are not fully aware of the importance of different cultures and practices in New York. Chinatown is a world of its own.
I actually unknowingly went for “dim sum” last Saturday and to my suprise it was the day that the residents celebrated the Chinese new year in Chinatown. It was rather a spectacular sight. Something I’ve personally never witnessed before. I was even further amazed by the fact that the persons operating the dragons were young boys of every ethnicity