Chinese New Years Dragon Parade

Title: Chinese New Years Dragon Parade
Identifier: WFA_149
Description: Three men performing the dragon parade on Chinese New Year. The Man with the mask teases and chases the dragon, which is animated by two men - one in the front and another at the back. The man crouching to the right has his face painted like a monkey, suggesting that this brings in the Year of the Monkey - in this case, 1932.
Commentary: The Chinese New Year follows the Chinese traditional calendar, and usually arrives sometime in the Roman calendar's February.
Date Created: 1932
Original Format: Photographic Print
Source: Cory Willmott
Provenance: Passed down from K & E Willmott to Don Willmott, and then to Cory Willmott. Digitized in 2008 by Elizabeth Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-02-17
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Margaret Simkin. 1978. Letters from Szechwan, 1923-1944. Burnsville, NC: Celo Press for Friend of the Orient Committee of Pacific Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Pp. 13-14.