China News Service, June 23 (Xinhua Overseas Chinese News) reported that recently, Japan announced the lifting of travel restrictions between prefectures and prefectures, and the society "frozen" by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic finally returned to normal. A few days ago, Yokohama Chinatown, one of the three largest Chinatowns in Japan, celebrated the remission of the epidemic and prayed for economic recovery with traditional lion dance activities.
Accompanied by the sounds of firecrackers and tako drums, the four local young people were divided into two groups for a lion dance performance. In China, there have been thousands of years of setting off firecrackers and expelling disasters. The lion dance performance also has the effect of exorcising evil and avoiding harm, and praying for happiness. Under the leadership of the “Synergistic Combination of Yokohama Chinatown Development Association”, more than 400 shops in Chinatown unanimously decided to use this traditional celebration method to kick off the economic recovery.
On the same day, hundreds of overseas Chinese and Japanese friends in Japan rushed to Yokohama Chinatown. While enjoying the lion dance performance, they tasted Chinese cuisine. In this way, they celebrated that the motherland and Japan had achieved a stage in this anti-epidemic. Sexual victory.
The director of the Yokohama Chinatown Development Association's synergistic group said that the number of people who came to the scene that day was about 60 to 70% before the outbreak. Although it has not been fully recovered, it has already brought great attention to the entrepreneurs of Chinatown. Great encouragement and hope. In the next step, Chinatown will also gradually do a good job in economic recovery based on the implementation of anti-epidemic measures.
At the same time, the Lion Dance event was held in Kobe, Nanjing, which is also the three largest China Street in Japan. The two live events also interacted through live webcasts.
Some time ago, due to the impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, about 80% of the shops in Chinatown in Yokohama were forced to suspend business, and the turnover was damaged to varying degrees.
The reporter noticed at the scene that many Chinese and overseas Chinese traveled with their wives and their families. "Footfoot", which lasted for nearly three months, once again saw the prosperous street scene, felt the encouragement brought by lion dance and firecrackers, and a smile bloomed on people's cheeks. Cao Yingsheng, the chairman of Kobe's "Nanjingcho Shopping Street Promotion Group", said that the current passenger flow is about half of that before the outbreak, and he hopes that the lion wake-up activity will bring vitality again.