Dragon dance in Beijing, China

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Chinese New Year celebrations kick into full gear!

Chinese New Year Dragon Dance

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

Chinese New Year Dragon Dance

dragon dance....is a form of traditional dance and performance in chinese culture. The dance team mimics the supposed movements of this river spirit in sinuous, undulating manner. The movements in a performance traditionally symbolise historical roles of dragons demonstrating power and dignity

The Dance of the Dragon comes along with the show of the Dance of the Lion at the festival to celebrate the entrance of Chinese New Year. This present year, ...

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Billions of Chinese worldwide celebrate the start of the year of the snake on Feb. 10, 2013.

There's a great big dragon coming our way , A great big dragon on this holiday, (march with others in a weaving line) Let's grab our lanterns and follow along, Dancing & waving and singing a song. (dancing and waving while moving in a line) There's a great big dragon coming our way , Hip, hip, hurray!

For Autumn Festival, a group of Chinese perform the Dragon Dance.

This is a celebration of the Chinese New Year. I find this interesting, because they don't celebrate it on January 1st, but usually during February. They celebrate by making large Chinese dragons.

Chinese dragons play an important role in Chinese culture, in legends, festivals, astrology, art and idioms. They are quite different from Western dragons!