Year of the Dragon Spring Festival

Say goodbye to the old year with the sound of firecrackers, and welcome the new year with fireworks filling the sky. Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, the theme of welcoming the new year, receiving blessings, worshiping ancestors, and praying for a good harvest begins. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebration activities are held across the country, with strong local characteristics. The lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume to bring good luck and fortune.
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