{"id":109559,"date":"2025-12-26T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:22:09","slug":"hmong-new-year-festival-kicking-off-at-fresno-fairgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109559\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmong New Year festival kicking off at Fresno Fairgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, December 26, 2025 2:52PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Hmong New Year celebration kicking off at Fresno Fairgrounds\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An international celebration will bring tens of thousands of people to the Fresno Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Friday marks the beginning of the Hmong New Year festival, which signifies the end of the harvest and the start of a new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cultural event is open to everyone, featuring traditional Hmong food, clothing, ceremonies and &#8220;courtship games,&#8221; including the iconic ball toss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">People from across the country and around the world are expected to attend for community bonding and connecting with family roots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The four-day event starts at 8 am Friday and runs through Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Tickets are available online or at the gate.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, December 26, 2025 2:52PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An international celebration will bring tens of thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[58833,8403,58832,112,58831,114,113,43280,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-109559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-58833","9":"tag-celebration","10":"tag-cultural-event","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-fairgrounds","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-hmong-new-year","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}