In the past, every year during the Spring Festival, there was a traditional Chinese New Year event "Flower Market Street Party" in San Francisco's Chinatown, but this activity was suspended for two years due to the epidemic. Today, this festive event has finally returned grandly.
It is understood that the "Flower Market Street Fair" is hosted by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco and has an annual series of activities to celebrate the Chinese New Year with a long history. The Chinese New Year Street Fair has a long history and has always been welcomed by all walks of life and the response is enthusiastic.
The return also attracted a large number of important people to attend. On January 30, Mayor Bride, together with a number of city councilors and overseas Chinese leaders of the Chinatown community, came to the scene to pay tribute to the Chinese merchants in Chinatown, waved to the tourists and residents who came to participate, and expressed greetings and blessings for the New Year of the Tiger. The flower market is lively and lively, adding festive and vitality to Chinatown under the epidemic.
Mayor Budd said, "Since the epidemic, the economy of Chinatown Chinatown has been hit hard, and it is everyone's united efforts not to give up, so that Chinatown has returned to a festive and lively atmosphere."
Today's event kicked off the city of San Francisco's celebration of the Lunar New Year, with a flower market street party and a parade of floats that will take place on February 19.
In addition to the exhibition of major public service agencies, there are also New Year decorations, New Year flowers, daily necessities, Traditional Chinese food, masks and other epidemic prevention supplies on display and sale.
San Francisco's Chinatown will launch a series of celebrations to celebrate the Year of the Tiger from February 1, including a flower market, a community street party, and a Lunar New Year parade.
Although there is still a gap between the stalls and visitors in this year's flower market compared with before the epidemic, the bustling crowds and lively scenes are also rare scenes that have been seen since the outbreak of the epidemic in the past two years.
The Year of the Tiger Flower Market is available from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 29, 2022 and from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 30, 2022.
The Community Street Fair will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 19 and from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 20.
On January 30, the Chinese Consulate General in New York and the Empire State Building also jointly held a ceremony to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger, Huang Ping, Consul General of china in New York, said, "The Zodiac Tiger symbolizes courage, self-confidence and enthusiasm in Chinese culture, and these spiritual qualities are very important for fighting the epidemic and overcoming difficulties together. ”
In addition to the Empire State Building, the Chinese Consulate in New York also cooperated with landmarks such as Nasdaq and the World Trade Center to jointly light up "China Red" to welcome the Spring Festival; The World Trade Center Building 1, Oculus Shopping Center and American Dream, the largest commercial complex in east Of the United States in New York, also lit up "China Red" from January 30 to February 1.
At the same time, The American Dream Mall is also scheduled to hold the opening ceremony of the "Ice and Snow Beijing Passionate Winter Olympics" photo exhibition and the "Happy Spring Festival" Global Chinese New Year Photography Contest on the 31st.
On the same day, Nasdaq will hold an online New Year's bell ringing ceremony, the exchange's giant electronic screen in Times Square will be broadcast live; on February 1, Hudson City Square will once again light up "China Red" and hold a lion dance performance in Vessel.
Technology giant Musk also used a picture to pay homage to the New Year: ink tiger with "Chinese red" Musk released a picture on major platforms at the same time, the picture with 4 ink tigers are dotted with festive "Chinese red" to outline SEXY, the Spring Festival sense of festivity jumped out. In addition, the center of the picture also reads "Yin" and "Happy Chinese New Year" in English, representing Musk's greetings to Chinese users.