Eighty people make the 92-meter Dai Loong (Great Dragon) through Melbourne Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year - and expected to touch fortunate. All residents participate in the celebration, or of Chinese descent or not. Announced in February 2010 the Year of the Tiger and, as usual aspects, the festival of traditional and contemporary Chinese cultural events with dancing, food stalls, arts and crafts.
Always in a lively area of the city recognized the quality restaurants and things Asian, China come home to life with street stalls and entertainment on the site. Meanwhile, Australians of Chinese descent sent home observance necessary luck to the coming years. China was first attracted to Melbourne to the Gold Rush in the nearby Victorian towns, from around 1851. Ships sailing from Hong Kong and as a business flourished the newcomers miners supplies and went to join them. The area is now an integral part of the Melbourne courses, contributing to many festivals in the city during the year.
The origin
Chinese New Year is the first day of the Lunar calendar, and therefore this is also called the Lunar New Year. And it is also called the Festival of Spring because it is the beginning of the spring term, the first term of the 24 conditions on the moon canlendar. It is recorded that the Chinese started to celebrate Chinese New Year from about 2000 BC, who held the festivities at different times under different emperors. They began to celebrate the Chinese New Year on the first day of the Lunar calendar based on Emperor Wu Di almanac on the very Dynasty.
Legend says that the celebration of Chinese New Year of the Beast called Nian. The Nian Beast people came to eat at new year, until one man found the old way is to conquer. When people began to observe and celebrate Chinese New Year. The word "Nian" now has the same meaning as the Chinese New Year, as that is often used as the Chinese New Year. And people often use the term "Guo Nian", which could originally mean "passed or survived the Nian". Now everyone Guo Nian.
Melbourne China Town History
The discovery of gold in 1851 that attracted Chinese immigration to Victoria, on a large scale. Ships sailed to Australia from Hong Kong with its cargo of men had come looking for the "New Gold Mountain". The small but rapidly growing Chinese community in Little Bourke Street to meet the needs of the diggers - Lodging on the way to the gold fields, food, equipment and medicine. In the 1860s many public associations that Chinese began to purchase land in small rooms Bourke Street club shall serve as the meeting place for Chinese public buildings. From the early 1870s until the early twentieth one hundred, was the China Town stage of growth. For as gold dried up over the excavations, has not returned to China went back to China Town Melbourne, those who remained, represented the community but they were. She found work and established companies to provide local non-Chinese and Chinese markets. The 1880s were the days of "Marvelous Melbourne", when industry was booming sales.
The new labor laws, as well as the impact on the "White Australia Policy" introduced in China Town in 1901 plunged into darkness. He was no longer the residential refuge for the Chinese, the population fell as a side business. If the government relaxed immigration laws revitalized China Town in 1947 itself again, the distribution of the population over suburban Melbourne. The home extends China today are mainly along Little Bourke Street between Swanston St and Spring St furniture manufacturers and lodging houses are now gone, but eating houses and top restaurants now have their place in the streets and low - rise brick building and maintaining a historic character.
It is still a busy and important center of social and economic service to the Chinese community and proudly stands as one of the most popular places in the city Melbourne. During the year, there are traditional festivals and many activities, making China home popular destination for visitors in the middle of local, interstate and international.
