A dragon flies over the shelves of the Tang Frères store.
It was hung in anticipation of the Lunar New Year celebrated this Saturday, February 10 – also called Chinese New Year because it is celebrated on the same day in China and Vietnam and then in mid-April for its Lao, Khmer and Thai versions.
“It’s the year of the Wooden Dragon!”
It symbolizes power and success.
Asians love it.
Next to it, the rooster is very small,” laughs Loan Chanh Vamour, municipal councilor responsible for the Lognes school (Seine-et-Marne).
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It must be said that this forty-year-old has a strong link with this Chinese sign.
It was thanks to him that she grew up in Lognes, a town of 15,000 inhabitants located about twenty minutes by RER A from Disneyland Paris and barely more from the center of Paris.
“My Laotian grandparents chose to settle there in 1983 because the word dragon is pronounced
logn
in Chinese,” smiles Loan Chanh Vamour.
It didn't take much for Lognes to be nicknamed the “city of the dragon”.
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