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Welcome to the Wiki provides a general introduction to the Yuba-Sutter Wiki and commonly accepted rules of netiquette on the wiki.

• Places in the Yuba-Sutter area include not only the well-known places such as Yuba City, Marysville, Linda, Live Oak, Sutter, Tierra Buena, Wheatland, Beale Air Force Base, the Sutter Buttes, Sutter National Wildlife Refuge, Spenceville State Wildlife Area, the Feather River, but also more obscure places such as Dantoni, Joesphine, Progress, and Ramirez, as well as many others listed on the Places page. It also includes Places to Eat or Drink, Places to Shop, Places to Visit in Nearby Counties, and similar information. Please add your photos or descriptions of places you're familiar with in Yuba and Sutter Counties.

• Culture in the Yuba-Sutter area includes Art, Cultural Groups, Events, Gardening, History, Issues, Literature, Media, Music, Organizations, Recreation, Religion and Spirituality, and Theater. Have you been to the Bok Kai Festival and Parade or the Sikh Festival and Parade? If you attended a public event in the Yuba-Sutter area, please add your photos or description to that event's page.

• People important to the Yuba-Sutter community may include you! You can add yourself to the page right now. You can even create an entire homepage about yourself and store photographs on our server to be displayed there. Also see Historical Figures for biographies of significant local people who are no longer living.

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Mystery Picture

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Can you guess where in the Yuba-Sutter area this picture was taken, or identify the building shown?
Where have you seen this mural depicting a shed or outbuilding below the Sutter Buttes?

James and Kara Davis correctly guessed that this is the mural on the Live Wire Products, Inc. building on the corner of 12th and E Streets in Downtown Marysville.

Read other people's guesses and spoilers! Or go look at past mystery pictures.

Has someone already guessed the current mystery picture? Post a new one of your own! Here are some helpful non-binding rules on what makes a good mystery picture.

Featured Event: January 1, 2010

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The Polar Bear Plunge takes place annually at Gauche Aquatic Park in Yuba City on the morning of New Year's Day. It consists of sliding down a 25-foot waterslide or jumping into a pool! All participants receive a T-shirt printed with the words "I Survived the Plunge." Additional prizes are awarded for the oldest, youngest, and best dressed "polar bears."

Featured Event: March 20-21, 2010

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Lion dancers in front of the Bok Kai Temple at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.The Bok Kai Festival and Parade is held annually in Marysville on the weekend of Chinese New Year. The Bok Kai Parade takes place on Saturday, and Bomb Day is celebrated on Sunday.

Traditional Chinese lion dancers come from as far away as San Francisco to dance in the parade, and the Ben Ali Shriners from Sacramento always bring a wide variety of different contingents. School marching bands and community organizations from throughout the Yuba-Sutter area also march in the parade.

Shriners' dragon float at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.

History

Lung Huang at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. A tiny portion of Hong Wan Lung is visible in the background. Photo by queerbychoice.The Bok Kai parade is the oldest continually held parade in California, having been held annually since at least 1880, and believed to have been held as far back as the 1850s. It features a huge silk dragon imported from China and carried on sticks over the heads of the marchers. The first dragon, Moo Lung ("Magic Dragon"), cost more than $5,000 in the 19th century and was the largest and considered the finest parade dragon in the United States until World War II. This gold-festooned dragon was frequently sent to participate in Chinese parades all across the United States, and was exhibited at a Worlds Fair. Due to damage to the fabric, he was retired after the 1916 parade. He was brought out again for the 1930 parade, and taken to San Francisco in 1937 for a Chinese hospital charity parade. By this time, tears in the fabric had required him to be shortened from his original more than 150 feet to only 100 feet. His head is now preserved in the Bok Kai Temple.

After World War II, the Bok Kai tradition in Marysville was preserved partly through the efforts of John and Katie Lim.¹ More recently, a 152-foot dragon named Lung Huang paraded from 1991 through 2009. The 2009 parade marked the premiere of the new 175-foot dragon named Hong Wan Lung, who accompanied Lung Huang in that parade.

Hong Wan Lung lunges at the crowd in front of the Silver Dollar Saloon while Lung Huang circles back toward the temple at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.

Links

Bok Kai Festival Website

Featured Event: March 21, 2010

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Bomb Day is celebrated annually in Marysville during the weekend of Chinese New Year, in conjunction with the Bok Kai Festival and Parade. The Bok Kai parade is typically held on a Saturday, and Bomb Day is typically celebrated the following day. The main event of Bomb Day is known as "The Firing of the Bombs," and consists of exploding 100 "bombs" - special firecrackers that are handmade in Marysville specifically for Bomb Day, using bamboo, red paper, and gold leaf. The bombs have gold rings attached to them with wire. The watching crowd scrambles to retrieve these rings, which are said to bring good fortune throughout the following lunar year. Many of the rings are not kept by the finders, but rather sold to others who want good fortune. The rings are numbered, and in accordance with Chinese tradition, the #4 ring is said to be the luckiest.

History

W. T. Ellis, Jr., for whom Ellis Lake was named, wrote in his autobiography Memories: My Seventy-Two Years in the Romantic County of Yuba, California about the Chinese immigrants' celebration of Bomb Day in Marysville in the 19th century:

New Year's day celebration was always followed in the next month with the Chinese "Bomb Day," when bombs were shot up in the air with numbered tags attached and the one who caught the wicker ring with the attached tag when it descended to the ground was entitled to call for and retain for one year a prize screen which was expected to bring good luck to the holder for that year. Great crowds would congregate to witness the scramble for possession of the wicker rings, when they were shot up in the air, particularly for the big prize one, and in those days I have witnessed over 150 Chinese pull and haul and tug for over an hour, trying to get possession of this prize, their clothes torn to ribbons, their hands and arms scratched and bloody, until finally some one of them would be successful, with the aid of his friends, to escape and run as fast as he could to the Joss House where the prize would be awarded him. Then would follow processions and banquets where large roasted hogs, "cooked to a turn," would be the piece de resistance.

Links

Bomb Day information from the Bok Kai Festival website

Featured Page: Lost and Found

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Have you lost something? Found something that someone else lost? Post pictures and descriptions of your lost and found items here—including lost pets! Be sure to provide contact information where someone can easily reach you.

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The Yuba-Sutter Craigslist Lost and Found is another good place to post lost and found items. For lost pets, the Pet Harbor website can be helpful.

If an item goes unclaimed for longer than you want to continue to hold onto it, please consider moving it to the Free Stuff page and giving it away to anyone who wants it—whether or not that person is the original owner.