The children are trying to touch the dragon for luck. Police estimated that more than 8,000 people crowded along the parade route in Queens, New York. Chinese New Year customs vary from place to place. People also give their doors and windowpanes a new paint, usually red. They decorate the doors and windows with paper-cuts and couplets about happiness, wealth, longevity and a good marriage.
Supper is a feast, with all members coming together.
Every light is supposed to be kept on the whole night. At midnight, fireworks and firecrackers are set off. In the morning, children receive money wrapped in red paper packages. Then, the families start out to say greetings from door to door, and old grudges are supposed to be cast away.