Chinese Year of the Dragon Welcomed in New York's Chinatown
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Chinese Year of the Dragon Welcomed in New York's Chinatown
For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me And up next we travel to New York City, where people said goodbye to the year of the rabbit. As our correspondent reports, it's become one of the biggest events in Manhattan's Chinatown. In New York's Chinatown, Chinese New Year is one of the biggest celebrations of the year. Yesterday was the final day of the year of the rabbit. We took a look around the Museum of Chinese in America%mdashor MOCA as it's known locally. Tour groups were heading out through Chinatown, hearing how the now-famous district started out, and how today it is divided into different regions. Inside MOCA, patrons were checking out some traditional Chinese art forms. [Mr. SW Sang, Chinese Culture Art Association Chair]: "I hope in the coming year of the dragon to bring all the happy, healthy to the whole world." Originally from Guangzhou, Mr. Guan Ziyuan has been a calligraphy artist for the past 10 years. He has five Western students learning the art. He hopes the people he came into contact with today will take away a special message from Chinese culture. [Mr. Guan Ziyuan, Calligraphy Artist]: "Our Chinese culture more than 5000 years' history. If you want to pass this culture down to westerners, we definitely have to use Chinese characters to express it. So I write calligraphy%mdashpass this calligraphy to Westerners." For families it was a good opportunity to learn more about Chinese culture ... From: NTDTV Views: 36 2 ratings Time: 02:25 More in News & Politics
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With the assistance of my Chinese roommate Fan, I learned how to wish everyone a "Happy New Year" in Chinese, to celebrate the occasion of the Chinese New Year on ...
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With the assistance of my Chinese roommate Fan, I learned how to wish everyone a "Happy New Year" in Chinese, to celebrate the occasion of the Chinese New Year on January 26th of this year.