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The Festivals in San Francisco

San Francisco is an important port city in California, where people from all countries live, and various cultures converge in this city. Chinese make up 12 percent of San Francisco’s total population, as do blacks, along with a small number of Filipinos, Japanese, Nicaraguans, Hispanics, Italians, Vietnamese, and Samoans.

Folk Festival

There are monthly festivals in San Francisco.

January/February

San Francisco’s annual minority festival begins with the Chinese Spring Festival – the exact dates are set according to the Chinese lunar calendar. The main celebration program is to set off firecrackers and fireworks, paste Spring Festival couplets, hold the Miss Chinatown America contest and the dragon lantern dance parade.

March

People of Irish descent celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with religious activities, fine wine and a parade with flags on March 17 (or the closest Sunday). Although Easter is not an official holiday in San Francisco, San Francisco people celebrate it accordingly. The Bay Area Music Awards are presented to local musicians in March.

April

The Japanese community in San Francisco celebrates the Cherry Blossom Festival in mid-to-late April, with entertainers from Japan taking the stage and some festivities in Japantown. The San Francisco Film Festival, the oldest in North America, also kicked off in April.

May

May 5 is a holiday celebrated by friends of Cinque de Mar to commemorate the Mexican victory over the French in 1862, culminating in the coronation of the Queen of the Festival at the Civic Center.

June

The ‘Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day’ parade carrying the rainbow flag on the last Sunday in June runs from the Financial District along Market Street to the Castro District.

July

July 4th is Independence Day in the United States, as a national holiday, when fireworks are set off at Kress Plaza and the Golden Gate Bridge. The Tramway Bell Ringing Championships are held at Federation Square and Bouc Street Square.

August/September

Aside from the neighborhood fairs in Japantown, August is a quieter month. The San Francisco Fair opens in the Civic Center in September, while several other fairs are held on Folsom Street and Castro Street. On the last weekend of August, the San Francisco Blues Festival takes place at Fort Mason.

October

October 12 is Columbus Day, commemorating the Genoese explorer’s discovery of the New World in 1492. At that time, there will be Italian folk celebrations in North Beach. Traditional festivities include religious services at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Washington Square and a parade to Fisherman’s Wharf to pray for a good fishing harvest. The last day of October is Halloween, and it’s the perfect opportunity to throw a party — there’s jack-o-lanterns, pumpkin pie, and office workers don their grotesque Halloween costumes.

November

On November 2, the Mexican community celebrates the Day of the Dead. It is said that the spirits of the ancestors return on this day, and the Mission District will hold a night-time spirit-delivery ceremony. The San Francisco Jazz Festival opens in November. The fourth Thursday in November is Thanksgiving and the unofficial show rehearsal, and the Christmas shopping is about to begin!

December

During the Christmas season in San Francisco, major department stores have decorated their windows with special decorations, and the New Year is a good opportunity for people to revel.

The magnanimity of San Francisco is an innate temperament, an inadvertent and natural outpouring of food, architecture, music, and all aspects of urban life. Here, in addition to delicious fresh and creative California cuisine, you can also eat the best French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese cuisine in the United States; here, the Victorian houses all over the city are delightful, Greek The Roman-style “Art Palace”, the gates of Chinatown carved with dragons and phoenixes, the five-storied pagoda of the authentic oriental Japanese town, and the restaurants painted with Italian paintings on the North Beach will make you dizzy;

Here, you can expect all kinds of art performances in a big city, world-class ballet, elegant classical music, Broadway musicals, lingering jazz, no competition, and they all blend into the urban beat of San Francisco. middle. All this fulfills the American writer William Saroyan said, “If you are alive, San Francisco will not tire you; if you are dead, San Francisco will bring you back to life.”