(29 Jan 2025)
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Havana, Cuba – 28 January 2025
1. Various of lions parading through the streets of Chinatown
2. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Meyling Wong Chuy, Chinese descendant:
“The Cuban school of wushu and the Chinatown of Havana in Cuba are very happy to be part of the celebrations of the spring festival.”
3. Various of students at the Cuban school of Wushu demonstrating Chinese martial arts
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roberto Vargas Lee, President of the Cuban school of Wushu:
“This is the most important celebration and today it is a universal celebration because all that is Chinese has been taken to the world.”
5. People eating and smoking cigars
6. Dragon winding its way through the narrow streets of Chinatown
STORYLINE:
Cuba’s small Chinese community celebrated the Lunar New Year on Tuesday night, ushering in the “Year of the Wooden Snake” with a vibrant parade, glowing lanterns, and dragons winding their way through the narrow streets of Chinatown.
The island once hosted one of the largest and oldest Chinese communities in the Americas, with the first arrivals coming in the 1850s to work in the sugarcane fields.
Now, a much smaller community carries on the traditions but celebrates major holidays with a Cuban twist, blending rum and cigars with traditional Chinese cuisine and a love of music.
Located next to the large Central Park, in the historic district of the city is Chinatown.
Students of the Cuban school of Wushu made a demonstration of Chinese martial arts.
Curious tourists and locals, some who were Chinese-Cuban descendants, clapped and swayed to the dragon dance while cheering on effigies of Chinese figures characters.
As of 2023, the Spring Festival was officially included as a public holiday in the United Nations calendar and in 2024 it was inscribed by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
AP Video shot by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán
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