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During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]
The temple was purportedly founded in roughly 1852 or 1853, [3] reportedly at its current location by Day Ju, one of the first Chinese people to arrive in San Francisco. [4] The building was later destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, with the image of the goddess, the temple bell, and part of the altar surviving. [ 1 ]
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (or CCC) (simplified Chinese: 旧金山中华文化中心; traditional Chinese: 舊金山中華文化中心; pinyin: Jiùjīnshān Zhōnghuá Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; Jyutping: Gau 6 gam 1 saan 1 Zung 1 waa 4 Man 4 faa 3 Zung 1 sam 1) is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture ...
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Portsmouth Square is the first park in San Francisco, predating both Washington Square (1847) and Union Square (1850). Established in the early 19th century, during the period of Mexican California , the plaza was renamed following the U.S. Conquest of California in honor of the USS Portsmouth , the American ship which captured the city.
In 1959, the San Francisco Examiner wrote that the Great China Theater was the last active Chinese opera house in the United States. [8] Due to the decline in Chinese opera, the theater stayed afloat by showing movies, relegating operas to special occasions like the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. 1963, during the Foo Hsing Troup ...
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The northern Chinese city of Tianjin ordered a second round of COVID-19 testing of all 14 million residents Wednesday following the discovery of 97 cases of the omicron variant during initial ...