A celebration of the Mid-autumn festival (a.k.a. the Moon festival) in the Central plaza of Los Angeles Chinatown. This is an annual event sponsored by the Chinatown Business Improvement District and included many artists performers. It attracted people from all over greater Los Angeles and it's a great opportunity to explore Los Angeles Chinatown.
Another notable annual event of Los Angeles Chinatown is the Golden Dragon parade celebrating the Chinese Luna New Year at around President's day. The upcoming Lunar New Year is February 14 2010, the year of the Tiger, Year 4707 in the Chinese Calendar (xx年). The Chinese calendar is a solar-lunar calendar: it adjust according to lunar an solar cycle. Many mistakenly call it the Lunar calendar.
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