Many gathered to celebrate the Year of the Ox at the Chinese New Year Celebration at Midtown Global Market on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.  Members of the Chinese Senior Citizen Society and the Chinese Heritage Foundation read fortunes and translated children's names to Chinese, and wrote them in calligraphy onto bookmarks. There was also a cooking demonstration by Pham's Deli owner Katie Pham, Jarelle Barton played the guzheng, and the Golden Leopard Martial Arts School wowed the crowd with their performance. The Minnesota International Lion Dance team capped off the evening with the traditional two lion dance that paraded through the Market, ending at Jade Asian Bar and Restaurant. Midtown Global Market gave out hundreds of fortune cookies with great Market coupons inside, and the Northrop auditorium gave away two tickets to their Devine Performing Arts Chinese New Year Spectacular.  A fun time was had by all! 

By Liz Hum

Editor’s Note: Many China Insight readers have seen a lion dance during the many Chinese New Year celebrations held recently throughout the Twin Cities area or a performance at A Passage to China.  This article may give readers a better understanding of the lion dance and what it means to the Asian community.

Season’s Greetings:
 
As 2009 draws to a close, we hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and while there may not have been much to be thankful for, we must remain optimistic that things will get better for us in the United States and around the world as we continue to recover from the severe economic disruption that we are experiencing.

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Greetings:

As the last leaves fall to the ground and we rake up the final bags, we must now prepare for our most challenging season of the year…winter. As hearty Minnesotans, we try to convince ourselves that we enjoy the change of seasons but at least we can ease into it unlike the early winter that has already arrived on the east coast.  Soon we will celebrate Thanksgiving and despite the gloomy economic plight of the world, we hope that you will nevertheless have cause to give thanks for all that you are able to enjoy.

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