Wong, expanded the parade into the San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival to take place on February 15, 1953, : 1 including art shows, street dances, martial arts, music, and a fashion show. During the Korean War, a group of Chinese-American leaders, led by H. The 1952 event was similarly colored by anti-Communist sentiments. Special police permission was granted to use firecrackers. In 1951, a week-long celebration included an anti-Communist parade with the theme "Torches of Liberty", staged by the Chinese Six Companies and attended by a crowd of 10,000. Some go further than this and try to carry off everything that is not nailed down." Modern beginnings San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade dates with greater rejoicing and feasting than the Chinese", adding that "any white residents who at other times united in saying 'the Chinese must go' find it convenient to invade Chinatown during the holidays and freely partake of Celestial hospitality. Their year commences on the 18th of February, but the festivities continue for several days, to the great annoyance of the people, as the principal diversion is the constant explosion of fire-crackers and bombs." The San Francisco Call noted the holiday in an 1892 article, writing that "no nation the New Year. Harper's Weekly covered the 1871 celebration from a Caucasian perspective: "Our illustrations on page 260 will give the reader a vivid idea of the way in which the Chinese keep their New-Year's Day in San Francisco. "Chinamen Celebrating Their New-Year's Day in San Francisco" (1871, Harper's Weekly) A similar street festival, the Autumn Moon Festival, has been held annually in Chinatown since 1991 to celebrate the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival, approximately six months after the New Year festival and parade, and is hosted by the Chinatown Merchants Association of San Francisco. Corporate sponsors have included Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines. The parade is hosted by the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce. It is made in Foshan, China and is 268 feet long, and takes a team of 100 men and women from the martial arts group Leung's White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association to carry it. The Golden Dragon is one of the highlights of the parade, considered the "Grand Finale" of the parade. Observers can expect to hear at least 600,000 firecrackers, and are advised to bring ear plugs. Highlights of the parade include floats, lion dancers, elementary school groups in costume, marching bands, stilt walkers, Chinese acrobats, and a Golden Dragon.
The parade route begins on Market Street and terminates in Chinatown. First held in 1851, along what are today Grant Avenue and Kearny Street, it is the oldest and one of the largest events of its kind outside of Asia, and one of the largest Asian cultural events in North America.
Held for approximately two weeks following the first day of the Chinese New Year, it combines elements of the Chinese Lantern Festival with a typical American parade.
The San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is an annual event in San Francisco. The Chinese New Year Parade in 2009, the Year of the Oxġ953 ( 1953) (private events date to 1858)
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