Online celebrations

Top orchestras in the United States, including the San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra, have moved their Lunar New Year concerts online this year.

This makes this year's Spring Festival "a truly globalized celebration," said Wei Zhou, founder and president of Weiber Consulting.

With more and more mainstream cultural organizations, including these top orchestras, marking traditional Chinese festivals, one can tell that Chinese heritage and culture are "increasingly a part of the U.S. culture diversity," said Zhou.

The diversity is making the United States a better place, Zhou said. What's more, the U.S. stock exchange Nasdaq also celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year by holding a virtual closing bell ceremony, which was broadcasted on Nasdaq's outdoor displays in Times Square.

Every cloud has a silver lining, even though the world was hit hard by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, said Chinese Consul General in New York Huang Ping, who rang the closing bell for Nasdaq.