On February 11, local time, the second day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Dragon, the Vancouver Chinatown New Year Parade was held in the rain as the largest Spring Festival celebration in the Chinese community in Canada. About a hundred groups from the Chinese community and other ethnic communities participated in the New Year Parade, which reached a record scale.
This parade is a Chinatown Spring Festival celebration jointly organized by six major Chinese associations, including the Vancouver Chinese Association, the Chinese Cultural Center of Greater Vancouver, the Vancouver Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, the Overseas Chinese Mutual Aid Association, the Yunbu Hongmen Organization, and the Canadian Iron City Chongyi Association. The highlight of the series of events. The Spring Festival Gala in Vancouver Chinatown celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
A group of guests led the parade starting from the Millennium Gate in Vancouver's Chinatown and started a 1.3-kilometer parade along the main street of Chinatown.
Overseas Chinese groups in the Greater Vancouver area, numerous art groups and social organizations of different ethnic groups, the Canadian military, Vancouver police and other parties marched in formation, and along the way they performed dragon and lion dances, singing and dancing, martial arts, instrumental music, Hanfu shows, and footwork. Various performances and displays including exercises. As it is the Year of the Dragon, colorful dragons can be seen flying in the team from time to time.
Although it continued to rain in Vancouver that day, spectators were still crowded along the parade route.
Governor Austin of British Columbia recently issued a special order to designate February 10th to March 10th as the province’s “Lunar New Year and Spring Festival Celebration Month”. Vancouver Mayor Shen Guanjian also recently issued an order to designate February 10th to 16th as the city’s “Lunar New Year Week”.
(Yu Ruidong and Li Zijuan produced Yue Ziyan)
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]