Friday, January 31, 2014

Happy Lu New Year 2014! (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; TetFestival.org ASIAN LUNAR NEW YEAR 2014
(Ttinova) 2014 Lu New Year festivities are exotic and integrating into America
 
Tet parade, Orange County (magnumasi.com)
Each year Americans of Vietnamese descent celebrate the coming lunar year with Tết Nguyên Đán, the most celebrated and significant holiday on the traditional lunar calendar, which also marks the beginning of spring.

The Fung Brothers and Priscilla Liang joke and rap about the 626 (predominantly Asian and Mexican San Gabriel Valley) in suburban L.A. to "Thriftshop" by Macklemore.
  
The Year of the Horse (buddhistedu.org)
The community is proud and honored to present annually the largest Tết Festival in the entire world, attracting over 100,000 patrons from throughout the country and abroad. Visitors are immersed with a vibrant array of traditional foods, live entertainment, festive games, and customs celebrating the new year. This year is the Year of the Horse (Năm Giáp Ngọ).
 
Enter the Horse and exit the Dragon, it's spring and a brand new year!
 
By now the country's largest China town is not in San Francisco or Downtown Los Angeles but in the San Gabriel Valley (area code 626) with its massive mainland Chinese, Mexican, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Filipino, Latin American, and Indian communities.

(SoCalUVSA) A recap of 2013 Lu New Year celebrations in Southern California
That Tet Festival was held between Feb. 8-10, the Year of the [NSA] Snake.
 
2014 (latetfest.com)
VNCSC Tet Festival 2014
A three-day festival organized by the Vietnamese Community of Southern California at Garden Grove Park starting January 31st 2014 and running until February 2nd. 
This year there are 11 beautiful contestants each competing for the grand prize of $2,000 and the title of Miss Vietnam San Diego 2014! Come to the festival... 
The 2014 Tet Festival is NOT going to be in Garden Grove this year.
Famous Tet festival heading to Orange County fairgrounds
Organizers of the largest Tet Festival in the U.S. -- an event long linked... Negotiations between the two sides for the 2014 celebration... 
(OCRegister.com) Garden Grove gets new operator for Tet festival 
(TetFest.net) Event: The tenth annual LA Tet Festival 2014

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