Dance / Chinese New Year

Lunar New Year 2024 celebrated with spectacular Chinese performances

By Betty Woolerton  Saturday Feb 17, 2024

Bristol has celebrated the beginning of the Lunar New Year with a colourful and flamboyant display of traditional Chinese cultural performances.

More than 4,000 people visited Bristol Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday to enjoy its annual free, jam-packed programme of dance, music and martial arts to welcome in the year of the dragon.

Among the lively acts on day one of the weekend-long celebrations was a Kung Fu demonstration from Bristol Shaolin Wushu Academy, a children’s performance by Avon Chinese School and traditional dance from the University of Bristol Lion Dance Troupe, South Gloucestershire Chinese Association, Kunming University Art Troupe and Yunnan Province dance troupe, who travelled from China for the event.

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The Lunar New Year holiday marks the arrival of spring and the start of a new year under the lunisolar calendar in a celebration that dates back to the Chinese agrarian tradition.

According to the Chinese zodiac, the personality traits of people born in the year of the dragon are charismatic, intelligent, confident and powerful, as well as being naturally lucky and gifted.

The occasion was marked by Eastville supermarket Wai Yee Hong in their annual Chinese cultural display on February 10.

Here are the highlights of the celebrations on Queens Road captured by Bristol24/7 photographer Rob Browne:

The event at the museum continues on Sunday, taking place from 10am-4.30pm. For the full programme, visit www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/whats-on/lunar-new-year-year-of-the-dragon

All photos: Rob Browne 

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