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Updated: Feb 4, 2024 / 11:33 PM EST LATHAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -The Chinese Community Center (CCC) is preparing for its Annual Lunar New Year Gala Show with an art exhibition.

This year marks the Year of the Dragon, or more accurately, the “Year of the Loong,” says Chinese state media, using its preferred term for the mythical beast. But what’s in a name?

Mark your calendars—Chinese New Year 2025 kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 29! While we bid farewell to the Year of the Wood Dragon, the legendary Chinese dragon remains a powerful symbol, deeply ...

The Chinese word for dragon has been in use since the Bronze Age, and “a creature called the dragon has been in the Chinese art vocabulary for thousands of years,” says Wilson.

No museum show to date has traced Taoist imagery and themes to their roots in the sixth century B.C., although every major survey of Chinese art has included objects of Taoist inspiration.

The release is planned for Jan. 27, 2017, in time for next year’s Chinese New Year. The release follows a rights deal with Hong Kong-based sales agency Distribution Workshop.

The dragon is expected to bring good fortune, so welcome it to your village. In the East, the mythical creature is a bearer of great things, the antithesis of Europe's destructive fire-breather.