Chinese New Year 2013 in Amsterdam

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Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as 'Spring Festival'.

This year I caught up with a couple groups celebrating the Chinese New Year in Amsterdam. Normally this kind of celebration takes place on the Chinese New year, February 10, and lasts for 15 days, but because Holland was in a Western country, they celebrated the Chinese way along with the Western calendar (January 2, 2013).

In this video, groups went through the streets of Chinatown in central Amsterdam to celebrate the New Year. The groups made their way to participating shops and played a song and did a dance ceremony with the dragon to ward off evil spirits for the coming year, as well as fireworks!

Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck..

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