SAN FRANCISCO—On a gorgeous day in San Francisco Falun Gong practitioners celebrated the arrival of the year of the Monkey with a Chinese New Year parade. Prior to the parade over 600 practitioners performed the discipline’s slow moving exercises for two hours outside the Civic Center downtown. Then the parade set out on Market Street, went through Union Square, and ended in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square. Here, the celebration continued with dance, music, and poetry, all in traditional Chinese style.
The audience varied from the local Chinese residents who brought their own chairs to enjoy the performance to tourists visiting San Francisco from around the world.
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