The Edinburgh Chinese Arts Association

03/03/2026

The Mound Chinese New Year Celebration 2026 highlights

03/03/2026

03/03/2026

The Mound Chinese New Year Celebration 2025 highlights

03/03/2026

On February 15th, as part of The Mound Chinese New Year Celebration 2026, a group dressed in traditional Chinese attire, led by Scottish bagpipers and carrying Chinese New Year decorations, strolled through Edinburgh's Old Town, adding a festive touch to the wintery city.

03/03/2026

The Mound Chinese New Year Celebration 2026! from vibrant folk customs to dazzling performances, Chinese culture is connecting with local communities, tuning the winter chill into a festival of colour, joy and celebration! The Deputy lord provost of Edinburgh Lezley Marion Cameron and Consul General Zhang Biao of the Chinese Consulate General in Edinburgh spoke at the event, offering their blessings for the Year of the Horse and distributing red envelopes to children according to tradition.

29/01/2026

The Mound Chinese New Year Celebration 2026!

15 February 2026, 12:30 - 14:00 at the square of the Mound Edinburgh. Free and open to the public.
This is a series of cultural and artistic performances with the theme of the traditional Chinese Spring Festival. Audience participation and interaction include experiencing traditional Chinese dance, Lion dance, and giving out red envelopes and more. This year the event is supported by Lottery Fund and Heriot-Watt University

25/06/2025

From Chang'an to Edinburgh, A 50-minute silk-road reverie where
Witness Tang Dynasty choreography reborn through celestial chimes and embroidered silks, performers will reconstruct palace rituals and poetic movements. while traditional sleeve techniques merge with contemporary physical theatre. Culminating in an interactive finale, audiences will learn ceremonial gestures and simple dance motifs, transforming spectators into participants of this living heritage. More than a performance, it's an immersive cultural dialogue where 9th-century Chinese court elegance awakens within Scotland's avant-garde heartbeat. 🎉

20/02/2025

Year of the Snake. On January 25, 2025, the Chinese New Year was celebrated at the Mound. the Lord Provost Robert Aldridge, Consul General Zhang Biao, former Lord Provost Lesley Hinds, and Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Languages ​​Press David Ferguson opened the celebration ceremony by dotting the lion's eyes and waking up the lion. Red envelopes were distributed to the audience.

29/01/2025

Although influenced by storm weather, we cannot have a stage. But there are still many people attending, and the event is very successful.

18/01/2025

"The Mound Chinese New Year Celebration 2025" is coming
Time: 12:00 - 14:00 25th January 2025
Venue: The Mound Precinct Edinburgh EH2 2EL
Free event, open to the public.

Join us for a special cultural event with the theme of traditional Chinese New Year celebration, including lion dance; celebration lantern dance, Chinese calligraphy; kungfu; folk music; children's dance; red envelope games and a ceilidh. there will be commentary of the event explaining...