Chinese new year

[bje07]

Revisiting my 2015 Chinese new year directory, I found interesting to make these B&W portraits, even if they are colorful.
They were taken in Paris where a great Chinese community exits for years in the South of Paris .

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[rpcrowe]

I didn't realize that Paris had a large Chinese community. I like your head shots. BTW: What is the significance of the round glasses worn by two of the boys? I am thinking that these type glasses were worn by Chinese men earlier in history...

[bje07]

I didn't realize that Paris had a large Chinese community. I like your head shots. BTW: What is the significance of the round glasses worn by two of the boys? I am thinking that these type glasses were worn by Chinese men earlier in history...

Thank you Richard.
About the round glasses, it is a nod to the adventures of Tintin, ("Tintin in Tibet" comic book of Hergé, famous Belgian, translated in many languages)
Chinese are 600 000 in France mainly around Paris, more than 50 000 are students coming from China .

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[rpcrowe]

Thank you Richard.
About the round glasses, it is a nod to the adventures of Tintin, ("Tintin in Tibet" comic book of Hergé, famous Belgian, translated in many languages)
Chinese are 600 000 in France mainly around Paris, more than 50 000 are students coming from China .

Thank you, the glasses had me wondering.

There are/were a large number of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. I wonder if the families of some of the Chinese in France migrated to France by way of French Indo China?

[bje07]

Thank you, the glasses had me wondering.

There are/were a large number of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. I wonder if the families of some of the Chinese in France migrated to France by way of French Indo China?

According to Wikipedia there is 350 000 Vietnamese living in France

[rpcrowe]

We have (as of 2012) in the USA, 1,675,246 people identified as Vietnamese alone; 1,860,069 identified as Vietnamese and other ethnicities. Vietnamese is the fourth-largest Asian-born, ethnic group in the USA, after those from India, the Philippines and China. California and Texas have our largest groupings of ethnic Vietnamese. They assimilate exceptionally well and have the largest percentage of people who have become American citizens than any other ethnic group who were born outside the USA.
I still have a smattering of the Vietnamese language which surprises many of the older Vietnamese...

[IzzieK]

The crowd doing my mani and pedi are Vietnamese. They had integrated well here too but we do not celebrate their cultural New Year so it is really hard to find a place that do. I think we have to go to Kansas or Australia to be able to watch one. So lucky you! I like your shots. I looked hard at the first one. He looks like a boy but he has a sort of chopsticks behind his head. Would have have long hair or he is actually a "she"?

[rpcrowe]

Our Vietnamese communities in Southern California have Lunar New Year Celebrations. Various non-Vietnamese ethnic groups from Vietnam (like the Hmong and others) also have their Lunar New Year Celebrations separately from the ethnic Vietnamese. Thirdly, our Chinese communities also celebrate Chinese New Year. Since all of these celebrations are lunar based (as is our Easter) we have a plethora of celebrations happening at the same time...

[bje07]

Thank you Izzie for commenting.

He looks like a boy but he has a sort of chopsticks behind his head. Would have have long hair or he is actually a "she"?

It seems to be a boy, I don't understand what you mean: I think it's his mother behind him.

the same in color (with few corrections)

[IzzieK]

Thank you Izzie for commenting.

It seems to be a boy, I don't understand what you mean: I think it's his mother behind him.

the same in color (with few corrections)

The very first photo has a decorative stick behind him. I would have thought that is a chopsticks. You see, Chinese and/or Japanese people, usually women, put their personal chopsticks in a bunch of hair behind their head. It is a custom for those that do not have a container for it or when they do not bring their purse with them when they go for some reason or the other. Some just put one behind their hair for decoration. So I thought the boy could have been a she because of that stick behind him. I have a personal chopsticks in my purse everywhere I go and so does my DIL. My little grandchild uses her hand and sometimes a proper spoon and fork and a blunt knife. When she turns 5 she will be taught how to use a chopsticks and since she is growing her hair now for till next year when she turns 5, she will also learn how to tidy up her hair using a pair of chopsticks.

Sorry for the long reply and for the lateness. I was otherwise occupied lately.