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Dancing in the street Share CLOSE The 13-person rice-straw dragon team forms a winding dragon while climbing around a 12-meter-high pillar in Qianjiang's Longwan town, Hubei province, during the Spring Festival of 1988.[Photo provided to China Daily] Hubei province's town keeps tradition alive as festival dragon entertains in dramatic style, Xu Lin reports. It's a time of year when tradition is honored. Indeed, tradition merges with modernity. The present makes an accommodation with the past. The dragon dance on Longtaitou Festival, or Dragon Head-raising Festival, to pr...

From complementary red pockets at Bubble Cafe to the Asian American Student Association’s reimagined annual Lunar New Year celebration, there are signs across Athens that the Lunar New Year has arrived. Friday marks the 2021 Lunar New Year, also referred to as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. This year will be recognized as the “Year of the Ox,” named after the second zodiac animal. The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday on the Lunar calendar and is named after the first new moon of the lunisolar calendars. Many East Asian countries such as China, South Korea and ...

The year of the Ox promises strength, harvest and honesty 1 of 11 SHANGHAI ME: Shanghai Me at DIFC Gate Village welcomes the Year of the Ox with blessings and tradition. Dine amongst the lucky bamboo and lilies of the valley and rejoice in new beginnings alongside family, friends and those yet to become. Shanghai Me has curated a new selection of innovative special dishes, influenced by luck and fortitude for the year ahead. The menu features seafood for an increase in prosperity, dim sum for wealth, as well as noodles for happiness and longevity. The Shanghai Me Fortune Coo...

Out with the old, in with the new! The Lunar New Year is all about ushering in luck and prosperity with family. Celebrated by more than 1.5 billion people each year, the holiday is rich in tradition and meaning, which vary from culture to culture. Read on to learn more! What is the Lunar New Year? The Lunar New Year is a holiday that marks the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar, which is the calendar traditionally used in many east Asian countries including China, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea. In these and other Asian countries, it is one of the most important...

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company to Receive $10K Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (FORT LEE, NJ) -- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the Company's  Year of the Golden Ox Celebration. This project will provide the necessary funding support to make this year's festival possible and allowing the Company to bring some of the leading Asian American Artists together virtually.  The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company project is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during this first ro...