Liverpool Chinese New Year celebrations in town today! The traditional dragon and lion dancing through China town.
As it's the 10 year anniversary since Liverpool won European Capital of Culture it's a big celebration especially with Liverpool's connections with China and the Terracotta Warriors coming to visit. This will be the first time they've been seen in the UK. Hopefully going to see them soon!
I love how much Liverpool embraces the Chinese culture with it being the oldest Chinese community in Europe but I was a little disappointed. I've not been to China town for new year in about about 3/4 years as the weather has been awful the past couple of years. The weather was actually alright today just really cold as I managed to go for a run this morning ! The dragon was tiny and so were the lions which I didn't manage to get a photo of. There was a couple of lions, a blue one, red one and 2 little ones but they didn't look that good. Town was so busy though cos the weather was good it was a big turn out. They had a little stage in St George's square doing performances which they never used to have. You can see the dragon dancing on my Instagram story here @Juki_W
There's a fireworks display later on tonight at 6 in China town!
Happy Chinese New Year!
All photos were taken with my Samsung Galaxy
S7 phone.
