Lions Dance as Australian Cities Ready for Lunar New Year Festival

Published on February 9, 2024

Chinese lions have paraded along the streets of Sydney to launch a festival marking the beginning of the Lunar New Year. The city has held the festivities since 1996 and it now hosts one of the biggest Lunar New Year celebrations outside Asia. Appearing in Chinatown on Feb. 8 alongside a lion-dance troupe, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the festival was one of the city’s most important events. Festivities will include art installations, lion-dance parades, dragon boat races and traditional performances across 16 days. Chinatown’s Dixon Street will be decorated with a 5m-high dragon sculpture for the duration of the festival, along with four lunar gateways in traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese styles....

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