Chinese New Year Lantern Festival Las Vegas
For a city that enjoys celebrating cultural diversity chinese new year in las vegas is a sight to see.
Chinese new year lantern festival las vegas. Known in china as spring festival chinese new year is the longest and most important festivity in the chinese lunar calendar. 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. Every october since its inception in 2014 the rise festival is held in the mojave desert outside of las vegas. The 9th annual chinese new year in the desert.
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. 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. 25th starting at 5 30pm 10 00pm. 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.
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. It s an incredible experience that cannot be desc. For chinese people lunar new year is their biggest celebration. 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.
The chinese new year las vegas 2021 starts on february 12th and runs through february 17th. 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. As early as the western han dynasty 206 bce ce 25 it had become a festival with great. Tens of thousands of people come together to simultaneously launch tens of thousands of biodegradable lanterns into the night desert sky.
The lantern festival has full scale lanterns as well as chinese cultural performances and special handicrafts to las vegas for jan.