Drummers, dragons and dancers have paraded through New York’s Chinatown to usher in the Year of the Pig. Drummers, dragons and dancers have paraded through New York’s Chinatown to usher in the Year of the Pig. Huge parade held in New York to celebrate Year of the PigThousands of spectators lined the route of the Lunar New Year Parade in lower Manhattan. Others played drums, banged gongs or held aloft big gold-and-red dragons on sticks, snaking the creatures along the route. A reveller celebrates the Year of the Pig in New York (Andres Kudacki/AP)Someone in a panda costume marched with a clutch of well-known children’s characters, including Winnie the Pooh, Cookie Monster and Snoopy.

Source: Irish Independent February 17, 2019 22:18 UTC