{"id":18651,"date":"2010-11-15T01:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:11:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-15T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:11:19","slug":"thousands-gather-for-hmong-new-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=18651","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Gather for Hmong New Year Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people are gathering at the Patriot Center in Rothschild this weekend, to celebrate the Hmong New Year.<\/p>\n<p>People come from all over the state to enjoy Hmong culture during this two day event.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 16th year of celebration in the Wausau area, and more than four thousand people attend over the two day period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a celebration kind of like a melding of the convergence of Thanksgiving and to be also the idea of a war victory day,&#8221; says Xiong C. Lor, chairperson of the Hmong New Year celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The event includes many different hmong cultural performances, like vocal competitions, dances, and musical performances.<\/p>\n<p>Students from UWSP&#8217;s Hmong and Southeast Asian American Club put on a fashion show this morning, and our very own Sunrise 7 anchor Bao Vang was one of the MC&#8217;s of the event.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/ww2.WSAW.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=886961;hostDomain=ww2.WSAW.com;playerWidth=300;playerHeight=257;isShowIcon=true;clipId=5291289;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=undefined;enableAds=false;landingPage=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsaw.com%252Fvideo%252F;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=MINI_EMBEDDEDscript'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people are gathering at the Patriot Center in Rothschild this weekend, to celebrate the Hmong New Year. 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