Chinese New Year Festival Davao
Like the regular new year the chinese new year signifies good fortune prosperity peace and stronger family ties.
Chinese new year festival davao. This festival is celebrated with a lot of exuberance. The celebration included decorations incredible costumes and a massive feast for all. There will be music and dancers on the streets a chinese dragon will go around performing good luck dance to the people and participating merchants.
Several bright and colorful chinese paper lanterns which comes in many different sizes and shapes adorn the temples and the parade. Chinese new year night run february 18 2015 5 pm. This annual celebration is done with well wishes for a new year of prosperity for all.
The people of davao reunite with their families and eat moon cake. A significant celebratory day in china but also across much of asia and the rest of the world. The celebration of the chinese new year culminates on the fifteenth day of the new year with the lantern festival or yuanxiao festival which literally means the fifteen night in fujian dialect.
It is a full day of festivities with flowing foods and having fun. President rodrigo duterte through proclamation no. 555 issued in august 2018 has declared the chinese new year as a special non working holiday in the entire country.
This was a day that will long live in the memory. With many engaging activities games and eye catching craft activities. The chinese new year day starts with davaoenos giving small gifts to their friends or workers.
Chinese new year celebration is done in davao with the well wishes of prosperity to all people. It is a day full of festivities food and fun. Sky lanterns or kongming lanterns are launched by davaoenos at the magsaysay park on the eve of the chinese new year in davao city on jan.