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PHOTOS: Ringing in the Lunar New Year

Lion dances, martial arts light up Lunar New Year

Ciarán Hill, 6, left, gives the lion dancer piloted by Steve Verzi and Ivy Hurwitz a few dollars during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Chinese Culture Center on Saturday.
Steve Barnes, left, dressed as the Monkey King performs the eating of the greens lion dance performance during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Chinese Culture Center on Saturday.
Tiffany Menhorn performs in the ribbon dance performance during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Chinese Culture Center on Saturday.
The Albuquerque Chinese Folk Dance Enable performs the Rhythm of the Silk Road during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Chinese Culture Center on Saturday.
Adam Menhorn and B’alam Hendren perform in the little Lion dancer costume during the Lunar New Year Celebration at the Chinese Culture Center on Saturday.
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Ribbons rippled through the air while lions pranced through the streets to celebrate the Lunar New Year, a celebration that marks the end of a lunar cycle and the beginning of a new year.

The Chinese Culture Center held a variety of dances and demonstrations to wow audience members and bring in the start of the Year of the Horse. The horse, which is in the element of fire for the first time in 60 years, symbolizes a period of energy and freedom while highlighting a year of dynamic action.

The events included several forms of Chinese martial arts, including sword arts and tai chi. Dances such as the "eating of the greens" lions dance, which symbolizes wealth and good fortune, were performed to a crowd who wanted to commemorate the new year. 

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