Chinese New Year Lights London

London s absolutely buzzing with light festivals in winter and so are its surrounds.

Chinese new year lights london. Chinese new year activities take place in chinatown trafalgar square and across the west end. Take a look at some of the best light lantern and illumination festivals near london during winter 2019. Why do we celebrate chinese new year.

Lightopia london at chiswick house and gardens lightopia makes its london debut at chiswick house and gardens. Here s our round up of parties and places to welcome in the chinese new year plus. Light sculptures showing some of the menagerie of animals featured in the festival the festival to celebrate the year of the monkey uses more than 50 hand sculpted lanterns sculptures are.

Kim ryan 28 february 2010. For this reason the date of the festival changes yearly. There are plenty of elements of chinese new year which go back as far as 2000 bc.

Retrieved 2 november 2011. The london eye lights up to welcome in chinese new year. The parade usually kicks off at 10am followed by entertainment in trafalgar square from 11am and activities at west end zones from 12pm.

Year of the tiger off to roaring start at parade. Chinese new year in southeast asia. Welcome in the year of the rat at this massive chinese new year celebration which will fill most of the west end with music acrobatic and activities.

You may also have heard the celebration called the spring festival or the lunar new year. London chinese new year the largest celebrations outside of asia. In 2021 the lunar new year falls on 12 february with the main chinese new year london festivities usually happening close to this date.