Pearl River Mart Chinese New Year celebrations
February 17th, 2014 by Mr. C
——————————————————————————————————–
Pearl River Mart, a tremendous import store dedicated to all things chinese including clothing,fabric,house goods,cookware,herbal medicine,traditional bird cages,traditional musical instruments,candy,artwork,porcelain goods, and a million of other knick knacks. They even have a tea shop on the third floor. Pearl River Mart has been in the Chinatown area since…dare I say since we lived in Chinatown in the early 1970s. My family has moved out of Chinatown since but Pearl River remains in the community. The current storefront on Broadway between Grand and Broome Streets is not technically chinatown but it’s close enough. Their prior location was on Canal Street & Broadway, just a few blocks away.
It has become tradition that Pearl River Mart plays host to a Lion Dance & Kung fu performance to celebrate chinese new year at their storefront weather permitting and this year was no different. This year the festivities were held in the store including the Lion Dance and red envelope giveaway as well as storytelling for kids on how the Lion dance was created. I was disappointed that there wasn’t a martal arts demo but the event was still a festive one. The Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute in Chinatown did a great job with the traditional southern lion dance, picture taking, and storytelling activities.
Pearl River Mart
477 Broadway between Grand and Broome Streets
New York, NY
Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute
65 East Broadway 5th floor
New York,NY 10002
———————————————————————————————————
(Video by Team Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute)
(The Storytelling begins!)
Tags: chinese new year celebrations, pearl river mart, wan chi ming hung gar
Posted in community, mr. c, photos | Comments (0)
