• lunar new year

    From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 19 11:00:56 2024
    XPost: soc.culture.russian, alt.russian.z1

    This year, Moscow city government has allocated several streets in
    the center of the city for Chinese New Year Festival in Moscow. From
    the government's perspective it's surely a political jesture towards
    China. Chinese Ambassador gave a speech at the opening event. And for
    regular Russians it's an entertaining opportunity to feel the Chinese aesthetics and spirit. Here are a few videos giving an idea about
    these Moscow festive events.

    <https://youtu.be/LHN8KmPYoKA> 15 m
    <https://youtu.be/1F3nkfm79II> 15 m
    <https://youtu.be/v5k-FHO90e0> 45 m
    <https://youtu.be/NYeFLVB7GDQ> 1.5 h
    <https://youtu.be/N4kwcOwyKnE> 3 h

    The Lunar ("Eastern") New Year is celebrated in Russia officially in
    Mongolic regions. The Mongolic NY shares its origin with the Chinese
    NY, historically, since the 13th century, but the Mongolic aesthetics
    and symbolic content for this celebration somewhat differs from what
    has become Chinese tradition. Moscow holds special festive events to
    celebrate the Mongolic NY too, and this year they happened in another
    prominent city place, VDNKh <https://rb.gy/oum5mz>.

    <https://youtu.be/yAnaP__ku18>
    <https://youtu.be/Wo2JFp14LSg>
    <https://youtu.be/Jo4wmVph-B0>

    This music video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeM6MWFMOeM>
    expresses pan-Mongolic message Russian style (and they also have some
    sights set on China too).

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