{"id":10541,"date":"2011-10-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/09\/goddess-durga-gets-a-chinese-farewell\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T12:00:00","slug":"goddess-durga-gets-a-chinese-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/09\/goddess-durga-gets-a-chinese-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Goddess Durga Gets a Chinese Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report_goddess-durga-gets-a-chinese-farewell_1596218\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, October 7, 2011 (dna india): Goddess Durga was accorded a Chinese farewell today, as the community came forward to present their traditional lion dance to mark the return of the Goddess to her heavenly abode.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in colorful traditional lion costumes, a 20-member team of the city&#8217;s vibrant Chinese community performed the dance during the Goddess&#8217; immersion procession by the Singhi Park Durgotsav Committee here this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Mimicking a lion&#8217;s movements, the lion dance is a symbol of the good chasing away the evil to bring back peace and prosperity. Hundreds of people took part in the ritual and bade farewell to the lion-seated Durga by taking part in the colorful lion dance. In Hindu tradition the lion was given to Durga by Lord Himalaya while according to a Chinese mythological story, the lion descended from heaven to protect the people and fight evil forces. &#8220;The primary reason is to show our solidarity with the people of Bengal, a state we have made our home. It is an India-China venture to show respect to the divine goddess who rides a lion,&#8221; said James Leao, leader of the lion dance group.<\/p>\n<p>Abhijit Majumdar, secretary of the Singhi Park Durgostav committee, said, &#8220;We have been living together for years now and it shows the right spirit that we are true neighbors who take part in each other&#8217;s festivals and help each other in their needs.&#8221; This is perhaps the first time in West Bengal that the Chinese community has directly participated in any Indian festival, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KOLKATA, INDIA, October 7, 2011 (dna india): Goddess Durga was accorded a Chinese farewell today, as the community came,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}