More than 500 performers will parade through HCM City's District 5 onthe night of Feb. 17 to celebrate the traditional Chinese LanternFestival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Artistsdressed in traditional Chinese costumes and lion dancers will go fromthe Vân Lang club-house to the District 5 Cultural Centre through LuongNhu Hoc, Nguyen Trai, and Tran Xuan Hoa streets where multi-colouredlanterns have been put up.
At the cultural centre, artists willperform Chinese dances and songs and traditional opera to bid goodbye tothe old Lunar New Year and wish for a healthy, wealthy, and peacefulyear.
The festival, organised by the District 5 Cultural Houseand other agencies, will also feature exhibitions of paintings,calligraphy and lanterns at Au Lac Park, An Dong Plaza, and Thuan KieuPlaza among other places./.