Program Description
Event Details
All ages are invited to join us as we celebrate Lunar New Year at the library! This free and family friendly community event will celebrate the culture of the holiday. The hours will be full of traditional Chinese music, crafts, cultural displays, snacks and raffles! It will also feature audience interaction to help create songs with simple music notes,
The musicians performing are from The New York Zhengming Guzheng Orchestra. They will bring us joy with:
1. Guzheng and Pipa Ensemble: Happy New Year; Purple Bamboo Tune
2. Pipa Solo: Yi nationality Dance
(The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu: ꆈꌠ, [nɔ̄sū]; see also § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in southern China. Numbering nine million people, they are the seventh largest of the 55 ethnic minority groups recognized by the Chinese government. They live primarily in rural areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, usually in mountainous regions. The Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is home to the largest population of Yi people within China, with two million Yi people in the region. In neighbouring Vietnam, as of 2019, there are 4,827 Lô Lô people (a subgroup of the Yi) living in the Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, and Lào Cai provinces, in the country's north. The Yi speak various Loloish languages, closely related to Burmese. The prestige variety is Nuosu, which is written in the Yi script. [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_people])
3. Golden Snake Dance; Jasmine
4. Poetry Recitation: When Will the Moon Be Bright
5. Two Tigers (Audience Interaction)
6. Guzheng Solo: Fighting Typhoon
7. Percussion (Audience Interaction)
8. Pipa and Guzheng Ensemble: Full Moon and Beautiful Flowers