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Chinese Lunar New Year at the Met

The delight of New York is that it embraces every festival and makes it its own – and in a grand way. So it was that the mighty Golden Dragon in all its spectacular twisting and churning and beat of drums came to the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 20.  For me, having spent many years in Hong Kong, this was like coming home! I remember the crowds, the festivities, the little red lai si packages and the joyous greetings of  ‘Kung Hei Fat Choy!’

This traditional performance at the Met by the Wan Chi Ming Dragon Dance Team was a spectacular celebration for Lunar New Year. In this gathering for multicultural audiences, hundreds of New Yorkers dressed in their New Year best sipped wine and ate Chinese pork buns and spring rolls and mingled with people from around the world.

Later they got a chance to catch the two new exhibits – Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China and Celebrating the Year of the Dog

Why the Year of the Dog? The traditional East Asian lunar calendar consists of a repeating 12-year cycle, with each year corresponding to one of the 12 animals in the East Asian zodiac (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig). Each animal is believed to embody certain traits expressed in the character of the people born in that year. This Lunar New Year, which begins on February 16, 2018, is the Year of the Dog. People born in this year are thought to be active, loyal, and vigilant.

Chinese New Year celebrations in a transplanted Egyptian temple by every race in the globe? Only in New York!

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