Chinese New Year starts Feb. 10, 2024

CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, for the Year of the Dragon, Angelenos and people from all over will come to LA' Chinatown to participate at the 125th Golden Dragon Parade.

• Chinese New Year's Eve (Spring Festival)
• Chinese New Year (Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024)

Mythology: Spring Festival

Keeping the Nian out of Manhattan, one of the world's largest celebrations outside of Asia.

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According to legend, Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian (a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains) during the annual Spring Festival.

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The Nian would eat villagers, taking children in the middle of the night [19]. One year, they decided to hide. An old man [extraterrestrial] appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that he would stay the night and take revenge on the Nian [draconian reptilian?]

The old man put up red papers and set off firecrackers. The villagers came back to town and saw that nothing had been destroyed. They assumed that the old man was a deity who came to save them.

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The villagers then understood that Yanhuang had discovered the Nian's fear of the color red and loud noises [19].

The tradition grew when the New Year was approaching and villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors, and use firecrackers and drums to frighten away the Nian. Nian never came to the village again and was eventually captured by Hongjun Laozu, an ancient Taoist monk [20]. More

This year's celebration

With 2024 to look forward to, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles will celebrate the Year of Dragon on February 17, 2024.

Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to gather and line the streets in the five block radius spanning North Broadway and Hill Street in Chinatown.

Families, friends, and children of all ages will cheer on marching bands, kung fu martial arts performers, lion dancers, and a newly crowned Miss Chinatown Los Angeles and her royal court. (Take that, Rose Parade).

This will be the 2024 Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Court’s first public appearance since being coronated on January 27, 2024, at the 61st Miss Chinatown Los Angeles competition at the San Gabriel Sheraton.

The 125th Golden Dragon Parade is sponsored and has floats, which with convertible cars will represent 120 years of this tradition.

ABC7 has done a live streaming on its website of the entire 2023 Parade. Massive broadcast and reports from all media, online media, and social media.

• 125th Golden Dragon Parade — Chinese Chamber of Commerce (CCCLA) (lachinesechamber.org)
• Lunar New Year Celebrations have already started - Department of Cultural Affairs (culturela.org)

In 2024, a Pre-Parade VIP reception for the parade’s honored guests, main sponsors, and important dignitaries will be held at 11:00 am, with opening remarks from Chamber Chairman Chester Chong and President Kevin Chen.

The grand marshal and four honorary marshals represented by members of the City Council and Congress will preside over the festivities. During this reception, Chinese Chamber of Commerce will be recognized for both its work promoting US-Chinese business relations and cultural exchange and well as its avid support of important Chinese cultural traditions, such as this Lunar New Year Celebration.

I don't believe in dragons, and I don't care what Christianity has to say about them. It used to be that Christians had to believe in them because they are all over the Bible, but now people laugh.