Staying At London Hotels For The Chinese New Year
Many hotels near London’s Chinatown are gearing up for The Chinese New Year. On Sunday 6th February, the main celebrations for the Chinese New Year take place in and around Chinatown, Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square with the Year of the Rabbit beginning three days earlier on February 3rd. There will be stalls selling food and clothes as well as entertainment from the Dragon Dancers. Trafalgar Square hosts traditional Chinese entertainment with street theatre, fireworks and Chinese dragons. Leicester Square will be home to many performances by Chinese artists. Many London hotels get into the action with Chinese style entertainment and special menus.
New York hotels are usually busy at this time. At 11am in Roosevelt Park on February 3rd, the Grand Firecracker Detonation takes place. There is a massive firecracker festival attended by community leaders and local politicians and with a stage show featuring singers, dancers and acrobats. In Chinatown, local dance troupes will march dressed in colourful costumes. The 12th Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade begins at 11am on Sunday the 6th February and features lion and dragon dance troupes, street theatre, elaborate floats and processions by local organisations. Once the parade concludes at 3pm, an outdoor cultural festival follows featuring martial arts displays, Chinese dance troupes and traditional singers before culminating in a firework display.
The New Year is celebrated in style at Hong Kong! The New Year Night Parade begins on the 2nd February. Starting from Sha Tsui East on the Kowloon peninsula, it features decorated floats, street performers and dragon dances. The parade goes down to the Victoria harbour, where the awesome ‘Symphony Of Lights’ is staged. Many residents visit one of the temples to have a reading done by fortune tellers or to pray for good luck for the year ahead. Another New Year tradition is to visit the Lam Tseun Wishing Trees and Tin Hau temple. People scrawl down their wishes on special paper before they tie them underneath the Wishing Trees on wooden racks.
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