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Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 1 February 2009

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Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 1 February 2009

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Chinese

Chinese settlers arrived in Sydney from 1818 and their compatriots followed, especially after gold was discovered in New South Wales. Despite harrassment from governments and intimidation from other Sydneysiders, Chinese immigrants continued to come and to stay throughout the 19th century, until the relaxation of racist laws in the mid-20th century. With renewed Chinese immigration in the 21st century, Sydney's Chinese community is rapidly changing.

Chinese New Year

A Chinese community and family festival for over a century, Sydney's Chinese New Year celebrations now include entertainment by Australian and Chinese performers, Chinatown markets, shopfront decorations, dragon boat races, and a stunning Chinese New Year Parade, featuring floats inspired by the different Asian communities who celebrate the Lunar New Year

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Entertainment and Spectacle

Celebrations

Religions and Beliefs

Chinese New Year

Important Chinese festival, celebrated in Sydney since the mid-nineteenth century, and now a part of Sydney's public cultural calendar.

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Lantern Festival

Festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the Chinese calendar, the last day of the Lunar Chinese New Year celebration.

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