Sydney City Government will launch a new lantern design for the 2019 Chinese Lunar New year Lantern. (photo of Sydney City Government)
The Sydney government`s world-renowned Chinese New year celebration, (Chinese New Year) `s performers and audience, will be more diverse, and the event will be a more inclusive event.
This celebration, held by the Sydney municipal government in previous years, is the largest Chinese New year celebration outside Asia, and next year it will be transformed into the Sydney Lunar Festival (Sydney Lunar Festival). The event will not only attract tourists from all over the world, the city of China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and other ethnic groups will also gather together to celebrate the auspicious year of the Pig.
Sydney Mayor Moya (Clover Moore) said: "over the past few weeks, we have met with representatives of many ethnic Chinese and other ethnic backgrounds and introduced them to this magnificent, exciting, new celebration."
Meanwhile, the municipal government is in discussions with several consulates-general in Sydney, and talks are under way with representatives of communities such as China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
"the celebration evolved in order to climb another floor on the basis of its origin, so the festival still retains the main elements and activities of the Chinese New year celebration, such as the dazzling lanterns in the heart of Chinatown." "I look forward to joining local people, businesses and tourists in February 2019 to celebrate the new year of the Pig," Moya said.
Since 1996, the Sydney City Government has hosted 120 events, co-sponsored 838 events, and visited China 15 times during the festival.
Over the past 22 years, the celebration has grown from the original small-scale Chinatown community into the world`s largest Lunar New year event outside Asia.
The 2018 Chinese Lunar New year celebration in Sydney attracted more than 1.3 million visitors, with 2 billion media coverage both at home and abroad. Total tourism spending during the festival was as high as A $70 million.
The celebration of the year of the Pig in 2019 will be held from 1 to 10 February. The highlights include:
- Lunar Lantern meeting (Lunar Lanterns). The lantern festival is a modern interpretation of the Chinese traditional 12 zodiac signs. The exhibition venue extends from the Sydney Opera House, the roundabout terminal (Circular Quay) coastal front beach to the overseas passenger terminal (Overseas PassengerTerminal);
- The opening weekend of the celebration will be arranged every night around the lantern to jump the South Lion dance, as well as fusion of ancient and modern China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and other multi-ethnic community performances;
- Dragon boat race (Dragon Boat Races) is the largest water race event in the Southern Hemisphere, which will attract more than 3000 contestants to participate in the event.
- During the celebration, more than 80 well-known related activities were arranged, including: wonderful performances, art exhibitions, film screenings and historical sites sightseeing and other dazzling activities;
- The Sydney City Government will launch four new lanterns for the 2019 Lunar Lantern, all created by local or Australian Chinese artists. The four lanterns and their creators are:
- Qian Jianhua (Justin Qian) `s 5-meter-tall 3-D pig); of Pig Treasure Lamp
- Lucy Zhang, (LouiseZhang), 8 meters high monkey transport tower, (monkey tower);.
- Xue Mei-ling (Pamela see) 6m High Paper-cut Art Sheep Lamp (paper cut-stylesheep)
- Tan thinks about (Laurens Tan) 6m high inflatable rock lanterns.
