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		</div><p>Drummers, dragons and dancers have paraded through New York’s Chinatown to usher in the Year of the Pig.</p>
<p>Thousands of spectators lined the route of the Lunar New Year Parade in lower Manhattan.</p>
<p>New York has the biggest population of Chinese descent of any city outside Asia.</p>
<p>“The pig year is one of my favourite years, because it means lucky — everybody likes lucky — and, for me, a relationship or family” and a better life, Eva Zou said as she awaited the marchers.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126144" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126144" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/9EBD1F0D-EF35-4690-8A77-E423B4E9CE2A.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126144" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/9EBD1F0D-EF35-4690-8A77-E423B4E9CE2A.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126144" class="wp-caption-text">Members of a dragon dance group parade in Manhattan</figcaption></figure>
<p>“Because I just moved here several months ago, so it’s a big challenge for me, but I feel so happy now.”</p>
<p>There’s an animal associated with every year in the 12-year Chinese astrological cycle, and the Year of the Pig started on February 5.</p>
<p>Some marchers sported cheerful pink pig masks on top of traditional Chinese garb of embroidered silk.</p>
<p>Others played drums, banged gongs or held aloft big gold-and-red dragons on sticks, snaking the creatures along the route.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126145" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126145" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/A50B2F98-3BA5-49DD-ADD0-D2AD294B7692.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126145" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/A50B2F98-3BA5-49DD-ADD0-D2AD294B7692.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="672" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126145" class="wp-caption-text">A reveller celebrates the Year of the Pig in New York</figcaption></figure>
<p>Someone in a panda costume marched with a clutch of well-known children’s characters, including Winnie the Pooh, Cookie Monster and Snoopy.</p>
<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio and US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, both Democrats, were among the politicians in the line-up, where Chinese music mixed with bagpipers and a police band played 76 Trombones, from classic musical The Music Man.</p>
<p>The lunar year is centred on the cycles of the moon and begins in January or February. Last year was the Year of the Dog.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126146" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126146" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/81955D96-9876-4690-AAE5-FFB073E47AB6.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126146" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/81955D96-9876-4690-AAE5-FFB073E47AB6.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126146" class="wp-caption-text">Dancers perform during the Chinese Lunar New Year parade</figcaption></figure>
<p>While some parade-goers were familiar with the Chinese zodiac, others said they were just there to enjoy the cultural spectacle or partake in a sense of auspicious beginning.</p>
<p>“We’re here to get good luck for the year,” said Luz Que, who came to the parade with her husband, Jonathan Rosa.</p>
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