Dragon dances have been documented at ceremonial events since the Han Dynasty (202 BCE to 220 CE) and often involve teams of dancers manipulating a giant dragon puppet through the streets.

In the early 1990s, the parade dragon was brought out for Lunar New Year celebrations in Portland’s Chinatown. At some point, those annual dragon parades stopped. Over the decades, the once ...

The Year of the Dragon began on Feb. 10 and is the fifth animal in the Chinese Zodiac. Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, originated thousands of years ago and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's an exciting time for San Francisco's Chinatown with big preparations underway for Saturday's Chinese New Year Parade. It's the lucky Year of the Dragon, and more than a ...

In celebration of the new year, much-loved Chinese dragons will parade on Australia’s streets, including Sun Loong in Bendigo and the Millennium Dragon in Melbourne.

There will also be a night dragon parade in the Chinatown car park at 6.30pm and 7.30pm on the Saturday February 1, whilst an illuminated dragon will feature through the streets of Chinatown as ...

Bendigo holds its annual dragon parade at the Easter Festival in 2019. - Golden Dragon Museum Bendigo, currently a city of some 100,000 people, has had Chinese residents for more than a century.