{"id":786112,"date":"2026-02-24T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786112\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:44:16","slug":"lychee-red-welcome-the-year-of-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786112\/","title":{"rendered":"Lychee Red welcome the Year of the Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Lychee Red, held a wonderful celebration for the Year of the Horse on 16 February to mark the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<p>From dumpling making and Chinese calligraphy to singing, dancing, and lantern crafting, it was heart-warming to see all generations come together to share joy, culture, and community.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWishing everyone a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay the Year of the Horse bring happiness, good health, prosperity, and warmth to you and your loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lychee Red Group runs a safe and welcoming community space for Chinese seniors to meet weekly at Beeston Village Community Centre. The group, which is volunteer led and supported by Health For All , runs activities and the chance to socialise, stay active, and enjoy meaningful interactions to improve people\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-170173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-170172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-170174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-170171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lychee-Red-26-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tPost navigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lychee Red, held a wonderful celebration for the Year of the Horse on 16 February to mark the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,9348,1860,155549,228960,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-786112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-horse","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-lunar-new-year","14":"tag-lychee-red","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116126382608792069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}