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Covid-19 wave forces Chinese Vietnamese to celebrate Lantern Festival in silence 27/02/2021 With a ban on large crowds amid coronavirus fears, the Chinese Vietnamese community in Saigon celebrated their Lantern Festival without music, dragon dances or a street parade. At 6 a.m. Friday, the 15th day of the first lunar month, Ly A Ton, 62, woke early to prepare offerings, including fresh flowers, fruit, incense, boiled chicken and fried cakes ( jian dui ) in front of his house on Tran Hung Dao Street in District 5.Instead of flocking to a Chinese-built pagoda with his offerings and burning incense to...
