Chinese New Year Festival To Be Held At Warorot Market February 14 & 15

[ChiangMaiMail]

Chinese New Year Festival to be held at Warorot Market February 14 & 15

Nopniwat Krailerg

The Chinese New Year Festival will be held at Chiang Mai's Warorot Market on February 14 and 15 and organizers proclaim it to be bigger and better than previous festivals.

Colorful Chinese dragon parades for Chinese New Year. (AP Photo/Tourism British Columbia,Tom Ryan)

The area will be decorated with Chinese lanterns, auspicious signs, and sayings, with spectacular displays of Chinese acrobatics from Wat Saolin, a giant lucky basket of oranges and Chinese biscuits for charity, and a parade featuring a fire dragon more than 40 meters long.

Chinese food shops, booths and restaurants will set up market style for the two day event. Mayor Tassanai added that this year's Chinese festival is the City's 8th, offering entertainment for visitors and residents alike. In addition, there will be a lion dancing troupe, a parade of Chinese divinities, Chinese music, and a parade of Thai –Chinese clubs and associations from Chiang Mai.

The parade will start at 9.00 a.m. on February 14, at Tha Pae Gate, move along Tha Pae road, turn left on Witchayanon Road, and end at the main stage in the Warorot market. The celebrations will conclude on February 15, and will offer shows featuring Thai-Chinese art and culture, a kitty young children's contest and Miss China Town Chiang Mai.

A local Thai-Chinese girl in the traditional Chinese cheong-sam will celebrate Chinese New Year on February 14 at Warorot Market.

Tassanai Buranupakorn, Mayor of Chiang Mai Municipality, accompanied by Dr. Ju Wei Ming, Chinese Consul General in Chiang Mai, and Chalermsak Suranant, director of the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) Chiang Mai Office, Noppadol Arnonthawilas, president of Thai-Chinese businessmen Association in Chiang Mai, announced the upcoming Chinese festival at the press conference held recently at Chiang Mai Samakhee Foundation.Dr. Ju Wei Ming, Chinese Consul General said the festival will promote Thai – Chinese culture and improve Thai-Chinese relations.

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-- Chiang Mai Mail 2010/02/09

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