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Miss Chinatown USA 2010, Crystal Lee. The signature evening gown is a tightly fitted cheongsam, chosen by the New Year Festival's organizer, H.K. Wong, to exoticize the contestants as "the perfect blend of East and West" and draw tourists to Chinatown.
Marysville annually celebrates the Chinese New Year and the god Bok Eye with a festival. The Bok Kai parade has been produced each year since 1880 and is claimed to be the oldest continuing parade in California. [46] Because the festival celebrates Bok Eye according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the date of the parade is different each year.
The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, [86] sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which ...
On Feb. 13, the Sacramento Asian Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce’s Lunar New Year Sip N’ Socialize will be a hub for small business networking on 1610 R Street. Tet Parade in Little Saigon
A new Tet and Lunar New Year mural in Little Saigon has circulated criticism online after it was revealed no Asian artists were hired for the project.. Wide Open Walls, a community mural company ...
Why does Chinese New Year fall on different dates? Rather than following the western Gregorian Calendar with 365-day years, the Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's 12 phases ...
Locke, also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta of California, United States.The 14-acre town (5.7 ha) was first developed between 1893 and 1915 approximately one mile north of the town of Walnut Grove in Sacramento County.
Layue (simplified Chinese: 腊月; traditional Chinese: 臘月; pinyin: Làyuè) is a term often associated with Chinese New Year as it refers to the sacrifices held in honour of the gods in the twelfth lunisolar month, hence the cured meats of Chinese New Year are known as larou (simplified Chinese: 腊肉; traditional Chinese: 臘肉; pinyin ...