San Francisco to Celebrate Chinese New Year With Ox Statues

Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, the biggest Chinese New Year parade outside of Asia, is canceled due to COVID-19.

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The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, organizer of the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, has launched a special celebration, "The Year of the Ox on Parade". 11 ox statues featuring Chinese culture are placed in ten locations in San Francisco and one in Oakland during the period from February 3 to March 14 so as to make the public celebrate Chinese New Year safely.

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These life-sized statues with a height of 4.5 feet and a weight of 400 pounds are sponsored by local sponsors and present various themes and traditional elements.

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These statues designed by local artists mirror auspicious clouds, peonies, plum blossom, spring festival couplets, blue and white porcelains, and Chinese cuisine. The statues are made of foamed plastics, wrapped by fiberglass and spread with resin to block out the UV rays and are water proof.

At the media preview held on February 1, there were a variety of ox statues, including one with the theme of "Diversity" that displayed multi-language spring festival couplets to extend Chinese New Year greetings to people, which showed that in addition to Chinese, many other Asian countries also celebrate Chinese New Year.

The ox statue sponsored by Salesforce, a technology company, commemorates the past in a modern way, with the color of blue and yellow. Embellished with colorful auspicious clouds and multiple electronic screens to showcase ancient inventions from China, it shows the moment when modern technologies are combined with ancient civilization, and each matrix is also connected with three lines to represent Wireless Fidelity (WiFi).

Source: https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20210203A02J5T00