LEGAZPI CITY: For the first time, the Filipino-Chinese and the Albayano culture and traditions were given prominence in the 12 years that the Fiesta Tsinoy Chinese Lunar New Year is celebrated here.

Maria Nini Ong-Ravanilla, Bicol regional director of the Department of Tourism, said the event showed the Pastores Bicol, a musical re-enactment of the age-old nativity story as introduced in the region during Spanish times, and the Fiesta Tsinoy, which depicts the culture and tradition of the Chinese people.

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