{"id":3559,"date":"2025-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinesecanadianmuseum.ca\/lunar-new-year-festivities-at-the-chinese-canadian-museum\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"lunar-new-year-festivities-at-the-chinese-canadian-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesecanadianmuseum.ca\/zh-hans\/lunar-new-year-festivities-at-the-chinese-canadian-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year Festivities at the Chinese Canadian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 25, February 1 & 2: Year of the Snake Themed Crafts, Board Games and Treats<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vancouver, BC (January 16, 2025) \u2013 The Chinese Canadian Museum is hosting various family-friendly Lunar New Year festivities to celebrate the Year of the Snake at their Wing Sang Building in Vancouver Chinatown. Colourful cultural activities include storytelling, crafts, board games and special Lunar New Year treats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The museum team will also be taking part in the 2025 Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Celebration<\/u><\/a> and will be marching in the parade on Sunday, February 2nd at 11 a.m. After the parade, the museum is inviting the public to visit and enjoy artisanal ice cream, balloon art, and other festive activities at the museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLunar New Year is a special time and likely the most important holiday of the year for many Chinese and Asian communities around the world,\u201d explains Dr. Melissa Karmen Lee, CEO of the Chinese Canadian Museum.<\/strong> \u201cHere in Vancouver, we have one of Canada\u2019s largest Lunar New Year parades that has been celebrated for more than 50 years since 1974, in the heart of Chinatown. It\u2019s a time when all communities can gather together, celebrate and enjoy cultural festivities, and send blessings of prosperity and good luck to ring in the New Year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year, Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 and according to the Chinese zodiac<\/u><\/a>, the Year of the Wood Snake represents wisdom, intuition, creativity and transformation. Those born in the Year of the Snake are said to be intelligent, sensitive, strategic and adaptable. Lunar New Year is also known as the Spring Festival which follows the beginning of the lunisolar Chinese calendar, marking the end of the winter and the beginning of spring with a new moon.\n<\/p>\n

It is common tradition for Asian families to clean their houses and symbolically sweep away any bad luck before the New Year, adorn their homes with red paper decorations with blessings of good luck and fortune, and gather for reunion dinners and pay respects to elders and ancestors. Married adults often hand out lucky red envelopes, lai see<\/em>\u00a0in Cantonese (\u5229\u4e8b) or\u00a0hong bao<\/em> in Mandarin (\u7ea2\u5305), with money to children and elders as a blessing of prosperity and good health.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lunar New Year festivities at the Chinese Canadian Museum include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n