Fairfax City Celebrates Lunar New Year
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Fairfax City Celebrates Lunar New Year

Reston’s Lauren Chen, of the Xuejuan Dance Ensemble, performs “Offering,” a Mongolian folk dance.

Reston’s Lauren Chen, of the Xuejuan Dance Ensemble, performs “Offering,” a Mongolian folk dance.

Organized by Worldance, Fairfax City hosted a Lunar New Year event, Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Sherwood Community Center. Activities included dancing, singing, music and martial-arts performances, calligraphy lessons and Asian refreshments.



Sophie Huang, Sabrina Lu, Ricki Yu, Erica Zheng and Emay Liu, all of the Washington Dunhuang Guzheng Music School, play the guzheng (Chinese zither), accompanied by Callia Sun on piano.


Performers with Fairfax-based Rong’s Kung Fu Academy. 




Members of the Virginia QiPao Group strike a pose after their dance number.



Children with the Xuejuan Dance Ensemble of Herndon doing a Lunar New Year dance.