Photos from The New Year Gala at NTDTV

“New Year? Man, we are approaching February now! Aren’t you a little bit behind schedule?” Not really, since I am talking about the Chinese New Year this time. Chinese people do not think that the New Year should start at the 1st of January, and they even celebrate it at different day each year. This time, it was at January 18.

I am not a person who would like to watch or even visit New Year Galas. I always thought Galas are a bit boring. But when I browsed through the photos from the New Year Gala at the website of the Chinese cable television called “New Tang Dynasty TV", I really felt like I have missed something.

They have published around one hundred photos from this event, and if you possess good internet connection, you can even download the Gala video.

Two of my favorites photos:

Dance - Heavenly Spectacle:

Dragon & Lion Dance

About the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)

Taken from their press release:

NTDTV is the world’s first independent, nonprofit, Chinese-language television network. Its mission is to provide accurate, timely and objective information to inform, inspire and enrich Chinese people worldwide, and to assist Chinese people to assimilate into international and mainstream communities. NTDTV promotes diversity and universal values of democracy, human rights, and rule of law, and seeks to foster the mutual understanding and integration of Chinese and Western cultures.

Since NTDTV was established nearly two years ago, it has brought accurate and timely reports from around the world and local communities to its audience. Such topics include the war in Iraq, the United Nations Human Rights Commissions meetings, Hong Kong’s Article 23 legislation, the SARS outbreak, and democracy and human rights issues in China, including the persecution against Falun Gong. To better serve the Chinese community, NTDTV gave in-depth reports of 9/11 and its aftershocks to the local Chinese community, the impact of the SARS outbreak on local economies, ethnic Chinese candidates in the U.S. elections, local activities in Chinese communities worldwide, and other similar items of interest. To express appreciation for overseas Chinese contributions to the advancement of peace, freedom and universal values is exactly the reason for NTDTV to host the Inaugural Chinese New Year Global Gala.