San Francisco Holds Lunar New Year Parade

Crowds gather in San Francisco for the Chinese New Year Parade. Since the 1860's, the parade ends the Chinese New Year celebrations and has become a tradition in the city. It is often viewed as the largest parade outside of Asia.

Published

3 months ago

Categories

US, Arts & Society

Topics

Asian Americans, United States, Arts & Culture

Places

China, San Francisco

Transcript

SHOTLIST: SAN FRANCISCO, FEB 23, 2013, SOURCE: AFPTV - Firecrackers opening the parade - VAR of the parade with young people playing drums and dragon dance - VAR of traditional musicians and dancers - VAR of floats at night - VAR of crowd at night - VAR of the dragon, closing the parade SOUNDBITE 1 Betty T. Yee (woman), member of the California State Board of Equalization (English, 15 sec): "San Francisco is now about one third Chinese and this is such a rich tradition for the city of San Francisco." SOUNDBITE 2 Eddy Zheng (man), member of Community Youth Center in San Francisco (English, 17 sec): "I'm super excited because this is an opportunity for us to showcase our culture and also to showcase the young people because many of these young people are immigrants from China, so this is actually their first year in America, participating a Chinese New Year parade." SOUNDBITE 3 spectator (man), (Englsih, 4 sec): "Snake year? Intelligence maybe and good things."