HK Embraces Chinese New Year with Celebration Activities

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, February 02, 2003

HK Embraces Chinese New Year with Celebration Activities

The Hong Kong Special Administrative region has arranged a series of celebrations for the lunar Chinese new year beginning as of Saturday.

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The Hong Kong Special Administrative region has arranged a series of celebrations for the lunar Chinese new year beginning as of Saturday.

An international parade-float performance is to be staged Saturday afternoon. The parade, a living fusion of East and West that reflects Hong Kong's life styles and traditions, groups 12 floats and 37 art troupes from Britain, Canada, Thailand, Australia, Japan, the United States, as well as Hong Kong and Macao and other countries and regions.

The Chinese new year is the most important festival of the year for local residents, a time when families gather to celebrate the good things that happened in the past year, and take part in the fun traditions designed to herald another year of good fortune.

Chinese new year fireworks display is also prepared for Sunday evening at Victoria Harbor. A total of 30,000 fireworks, speciallydesigned for the Year of Goat will be launched in 23 minutes. Theyinclude fireworks named "smiling faces", "Chinese Rose" and "8" --a lucky number for Chinese people.

Between Feb. 1 to Feb. 16, a "snow playground" and a cartoon-figure performance is arranged for children in the Ocean Park. Children can have a wonderful experience in the region which has never witnessed any real snowfalls.

Chinese new year horse racing will be held on the third day of the Chinese new year. Many Hong Kong people believed that the races can indicate one's fortune for the new year.

A total of 500,000 Hong Kong residents visited the region's largest new year fair in Victoria Park on the eve of the lunar Chinese new year.

A large number of Hong Kong people expected to bolster their prosperity by buying kumquat trees and some others tried to boost their chances of finding love by buying peach blossoms or buy tangerines with leaves to prey for long-lasting marriages.

Like residents in the Chinese mainland, most Hong Kong people had their family gathering on the new year's eve.

However, they would rather visit new year fairs, go shopping orgo to cafes and cinemas after the gathering dinner, instead of staying at home and watching television programs specially arranged for the lunar new year as most Chinese mainland residentsusually do.

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