{"id":14741,"date":"2011-02-07T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/year-of-the-rabbit-celebrated-at-great-wall-mall-in-kent-slide-show\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:45:33","slug":"year-of-the-rabbit-celebrated-at-great-wall-mall-in-kent-slide-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/year-of-the-rabbit-celebrated-at-great-wall-mall-in-kent-slide-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Rabbit celebrated at Great Wall Mall in Kent: Slide Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was party time Feb. 5 in Kent, as the Great Wall Mall<\/a> celebrated the new Year of the Rabbit with a cultural arts festival. The Asian-influenced mall was the focal point for a variety of individual dancers and troupes, including a Vietnamese lion dance team (Au Lac Vovinam out of White Center), as well as dancers on the central stage in front of the Ranch 99 Market, whose repertoires included Korean and Chinese dances. There was even a magician.<\/p>\n The event was free, but raffle tickets were on sale, for prizes donated by sponsors and stores at The Great Wall Mall, 18230 E. Valley Highway. Part of the proceeds from raffle tickets were to benefit Seattle’s Kin On Nursing Home, a nonprofit group that serves Asian Americans in the community.<\/p>\n The Rabbit is a sign on the Chinese zodiac chart, although on the Vietnamese zodiac, the cat takes the place of the rabbit.<\/p>\n According to the Web site operated by the Chinese Culture Center of San Franciso,<\/a> people born on the following years celebrate the Rabbit: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999.<\/p>\n