How Chinese Lunar New Year Celebrations Lit Up Asian Cities

Chinese Lunar Year celebrations have been exciting this year, lighting up cities and neigbourhoods in both Asia and Europe.

Sunday marked the first day of the celebrations cum the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit, and bidding bye, the year of the tiger.

Though the Lunar New Year is peculiar to China, in fact, its grandest annual festival and holiday, its fame now transcends other countries and cultures.

This Lunar new Year begins Jan. 22, lasting a period of about 15 days from the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ending on the first full moon.

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Reports on how Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations Lit Up Asian Cities have dominated the media.

They show this year as significant in the festival after a break foisted by Covid-19 social distancing, was nonetheless marked in such countries as Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Korea and Malaysia.

Celebrations for the return of the lunar year was characterized by parades in exciting apparels, in moods that bring ‘hope,’ the streets of China in Vancouver not left out.

Reports say of excitement amongst locals, politicians and business people alike upbeat welcoming the year of the rabbit.

The parade reportedly drew crowds of thousands who relished the Lion Dance and other cultural displays depictive of Chinese life.

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The fact that distinguished individuals, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier David Eby and Mayor Ken Sim participated in the Vancouver leg of the celebration can only be indicative of the tremendous cultural appeal of the festival.

“It’s great to see people come back not only just to celebrate and embrace cultural events in Vancouver but the revitalization of Chinatown – and this is the start of it,” Sim told CTV News.

Also, neighbourhood business owner Keller Ng reportedly told CTV News she’s been eagerly anticipating the return of the event, which brings a much-needed boost in foot traffic and shoppers to the neighbourhood.

By way of background, the Lunar New Year marks the start of the lunar calendar.

A unique thing about the Lunar New Year is that it based on the cycles of the moon and falls on a different day each year.

The blast of festivities came as a sound reminder to many of the end of anxiety occasioned by the pandemic period, signaling the dawn of a new era.