The New Chinese Year´s celebration is the most relevant festivity known of the Chinese calendar, also known as the Spring Festivity or the New Lunar Year´s celebration.
The Lunar-Solar Calendar traditionally used in China is based on the Moon and Sun phases as main bases for a celebration that dates from more than 3000 years.
The New Chinese year commenced in 2022 in correspondence with the Water Tiger, which is a symbol of strength and bravery.
The arrival of the New Chinese Year has a relevant connotation that honor their ancestors and brings good fortune wishes.
Descendants and Chinatown inhabitants in Havana welcomed the starting point of the celebration of this event in 2022.
The traditional Lion´s Dance was the opening at the heart of Chinatown in Havana for the festivities, accompanied by traditional Chinese food services, Chinese crafting sales and the inauguration of a painting exhibition performed by local artists, among other attractions.
Teresa Li, head of Casa de las Artes y Tradiciones chinas (House of Arts and Chinese Traditions), explained to the press that for inland Chinese communities, this celebration gets a supreme significance this 2022, Year of the Tiger on which after two years limited by the Covid-109 outbreak, it brings the energy and vitality of a new life stage.
Chinatown in Havana is located near the National Capitol of Cuba, between Amistad street and Dragones street, and actually embrace the space framed between Escobar street and Galiano street, from San Jose to Reina streets, in the Centro Habana municipality.
It’s the biggest and most remarkable Chinese settlement of Latin America, which nowadays survive thanks to the spirit and will of the Chinese settled in the island and their descendants, still living there.
Festivities for the Spring Celebration will last till February 14th and will endorse the blending of the Chinese’s culinary art with dance expressions, exhibitions, books launching, honoring activities and conferences, hosted by the Casa de Artes y Tradiciones Chinas and the  
This year, the Organizing Committee seeks rescuing and demonstrating the endurance of traditions inherited by Chinese people arrived to the island from 1847, who set pauses for the endurance of their millenary culture, their customs and way of living in the Caribbean island.  
Source: Radio Metropolitana