Highlights from the 2014 Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, February 15. More Lion Dancing and dragons than I've seen in one place!
Turn on closed captions for labels for each of the groups shown, where I knew. If you find any mistakes or ones that I missed, send me an update and I'll update the captions. There is also an index below.
The parade took 2.5 hours to pass any point, and took hours longer to wind through 1.5 miles of San Francisco streets. My apologies to the many parade participants I had to leave out of this video, I enjoyed them all, but as a practical matter I couldn't include them all. I recorded 1 hour, 44 minutes of video, which I edited down to these highlights. I hope you enjoy them!
Rain was threatening, but in the end it held off and the weather was great: unusually warm, dry, no wind.
新年快樂
You may also find these related videos interesting:
Chinese New Year parade 2016: [ Ссылка ]
Chinese New Year Parade 2015: [ Ссылка ]
Stunt Lion Dancing: [ Ссылка ]
New Year Flower Fair 2014: [ Ссылка ]
Stroll (walklapse) thru Chinatown San Francisco: [ Ссылка ]
Autumn Moon Festival 2013: [ Ссылка ]
Index:
00:07 12 Zodiac banners
00:34 St. Mary's School
00:42 SFPD
00:51 Cupertino Language Immersion Program
01:08 Sifu Meng's International Kung-Fu Academy, Inc.
01:20 Chinese Immersion School at De Avila
01:33 SFFD
01:44 8 Immortals
01:56 SF Sheriff's Department
02:00 California Highway Patrol
02:05 Commodore Sloat Elementary School
02:12 Oakland Firefighters Random Acts
02:21 BART
02:28 Emperor Norton
02:39 Alamo Elementary School
02:46 San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association
03:45 Jose Ortega Elementary School
04:11 International School of the Peninsula
04:23 Southwest Airlines
04:30 St. Mary's Drill Team, St. Mary's Chinese School
05:02 Mayor Ed Lee
05:21 SFPD Lion Dance Team
06:07 Lucky Stores
06:31 Gordon J Lau Elementary School
06:59 West Portal Elementary School
07:11 West Portal Elementary School Lion Dance Team
07:59 Sherman Elementary School
09:50 Visa
10:01 weibo.com
10:17 CocaCola
10:33 Bank of America
10:39 McDonald's
10:45 Mills High School, Millbrae
11:19 Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Wah Mei School
11:37 Presidio Knolls School
12:05 Alice Fong Yu Alternative School
12:31 Chung Ngai Dance Troupe
13:34 Cal Poly Mustang Band
14:42 AT&T
15:20 Yau Kung Mon, Inc.
17:53 Community Youth Center of SF
18:53 Hyundai
19:04 West Portal Elementary School
19:15 Cathay Pacific Airways
19:27 West Portal Elementary Ribbon & Fan Dancers
20:37 Foster City Chinese Club
21:07 Garfield Elementary School
21:12 UPS/APA Family Support Services
21:27 SFMTA
21:39 Graton Resort & Casino
21:49 Mah Sing See Wui
22:30 De Lynn Dance Company
22:49 Wells Fargo
22:53 Chinese Chamber of Commerce
23:08 North America Dong Yue Tai Chi Association
23:58 Yew Chung International School
24:24 Golden Gate National Parks
24:58 TamKang University Alumni Drum Team
25:29 West Coast Lion Dance Troupe
26:30 Orchard School Asian Cultural Dance Troupe
27:14 Sing Tao
27:24 Silver Legacy Resort & Casino Reno
27:40 Ma-Tsu Temple USA
28:46 Macy's
28:52 Shaolin Temple USA
29:32 Miss Chinatown, queens and princesses
29:46 White Crane Kung Fu
30:27 "Golden Dragon", longest dragon of the parade at 289 feet
