Exploring Parade and Festivals on Chinese New Year in Macau
Like the other China’s cities, Macau also celebrates the Chinese New Year in every year. It is one of the best places to witness the amazing beauty of this festival. With the amazing festival spirit, Macau celebrates it with grand arrangement. The most attractive part of this event is the long parade that draws the attention of many people. To enjoy this outstanding festival, come to visit the city and enjoy it with your family.
PARADE AND FESTIVE CELEBRATIONS
Macau celebrates this festival from many years. Being the most popular city of china it comes out with grand arrangement every year and decorates the whole city with amazing things. Chinese people prefer red color in every occasion. They believe that red is the color of hope, good fortune and positivity. Hence, they decorate the city with red color. Every street, corner of the city looks gorgeous with the dazzling lights and beautiful flowers.
Roosevelt Park is the most popular area where the celebration takes place. It situated between grand and Hester streets. The inhabitants of this place decorate the park with red hanging and gorgeous lanterns along with an inscription. Dazzling firecrackers will amaze you completely when it lightens up the sky. There will be a number of reputed people including local politicians and other community leaders. There will be a large stage at the park arranged for the several cultural performances. Many traditional, popular contemporary Asian- American dancers and singers perform there to make a beautiful atmosphere.
Well, the biggest attraction of this celebration is the long, organized parade that walks through the streets of Macau and covers almost the whole city. Several lion, dragon as well as unicorn troupes join the parade. They will march on the main streets of china town such as Mott Street, Bayard Street, the Bowery, Elizabeth Street, East Broadway and Pell Street. You can also find this parade all over the Chinatown of Macau including East Broadway, Eldridge Street and Forsyth. The entire parade features marching bands, elaborate floats and many more things.
The special lion and dragon dance show will be presented at the Mott Street along with many acrobats, martial arts experts who will show their talents. Many teenagers and popular local artists also perform on this special occasion. More than 5000 people come in every year to witness such a gorgeous dragon dance show. The parade starts from the afternoon and continues up to 3 PM. Then the cultural program starts in the Roosevelt Park. A number of musicians, dancers and other performers give their best to make it a successful party.
This parade of Macau is known as the flagship event of this entire festival. If you haven’t watch such a beautiful parade where 18 lion dancers perform on the street and a 238 meter long dragon will show his talent to amaze the visitor, then you should definitely come to Macau.
HOTELS ON CNY HOLIDAYS
There are a number of hotels in Macau that provide the best services on Chinese New Year. You can search online to find out the best hotels. You will have delicious food and great arrangement in such hotels.
