When sounds of crashing cymbals and lilting flutes play endlessly in malls and supermarkets, you know Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Chinese Singaporeans are stocking up on mandarin ...

Chinatown's streets will come to life on Feb. 9 with thunderous drums and a clang of cymbals as nine lion dance troupes celebrate the Year of the Snake in the Chinese New Year Parade. WBUR's Cici ...

The phrases, respectively, are a common Chinese New Year greeting, an onomatopoeia for drum beat and cymbal clash ... hand at Chinese calligraphy and playing a lion dance troupe’s drum.