Chinese New Year Lantern Festival Las Vegas

For nearly 2 000 years the chinese new year has been celebrated with lanterns and this festival made its first appearance ever in las vegas.

Chinese new year lantern festival las vegas.

Chinese new year is the most important chinese holiday and is known as spring festival in china tet new year in vietnam and seol lal in korea. For chinese people lunar new year is their biggest celebration. For a city that enjoys celebrating cultural diversity chinese new year in las vegas is a sight to see. People who live in las vegas also join the festival with the chinese population.

As early as the western han dynasty 206 bce ce 25 it had become a festival with great. The chinese new year holiday comes to its climax with the yuan xiao 元宵节 yuán xiāo jié or lantern festival began over 2000 years ago the festival has developed many meanings. From fireworks to dragon dance and many more activities will display on the chinatown of las vegas on 2020 chinese new year and spring festival. Every october since its inception in 2014 the rise festival is held in the mojave desert outside of las vegas.

It celebrates family reunions and society. Tens of thousands of people come together to simultaneously launch tens of thousands of biodegradable lanterns into the night desert sky. The explosive growth of chinese new year in the desert over the past 8 years has led to an expanded program and a change in the venues. The 9th annual chinese new year in the desert.

It s an incredible experience that cannot be desc. The chinese new year las vegas 2021 starts on february 12th and runs through february 17th. 25th starting at 5 30pm 10 00pm. The lantern festival or the spring lantern festival is a chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar chinese calendar usually falling in february or early march on the gregorian calendar it marks the final day of the traditional chinese new year celebrations.

The lantern festival has full scale lanterns as well as chinese cultural performances and special handicrafts to las vegas for jan.