Chinese New Year Lantern Festival Las Vegas

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

Chinese new year lantern festival las vegas.

For chinese people lunar new year is their biggest celebration. 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. We had hoped to use this year s festival as a beacon of healing but our top priority remains to ensure the safety of all participants staff and performers. 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.

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. Tens of thousands of people come together to simultaneously launch tens of thousands of biodegradable lanterns into the night desert sky. 25th starting at 5 30pm 10 00pm. For a city that enjoys celebrating cultural diversity chinese new year in las vegas is a sight to see.

Known in china as spring festival chinese new year is the longest and most important festivity in the chinese lunar calendar. 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. It celebrates family reunions and society. 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.

However after numerous discussions with nevada government officials we have made the difficult decision to postpone rise mojave 2020 until october 1st and 2nd 2021. 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. The 9th annual chinese new year in the desert.

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.