There are fire trees and silver flowers during Lantern Festival night, which is the time when all families are reunited. At 9:30 a.m. on the 14th day of the first lunar month, as the Lantern Festival is approaching, Zhoujiagou Community andHUAT organized foreign teachers and students who stayed at the school during the winter vacation to carry out "Lantern Festival Celebration". The celebration of "Meet and Gather to Celebrate the Year of the Tiger" allows foreign teachers and students to better understand and experience the customs and culture of the Chinese Lantern Festival. Zhang Hongxia, Vice President ofHUAT and Wang Wenshan, Tao Wei, Wang Hongtao, Gui Lei and Wang Anli also ICEO Director Su Zibo and nearly 20 foreign teachers and students attended the celebration.
There were colorful balloons, red lanterns, the character "福" and Chinese knots that could be seen everywhere at the site. Various Spring Festival elements made the site decoration extra festive. Wang Anli delivered a welcome speech. She expressed her hope that through a series of activities today, foreign friends can better understand Chinese culture, love Chinese culture, and promote Chinese culture. Afterwards, everyone gathered todopaper-cutting, guess lantern riddles, and make glutinous rice balls. The scene was filled with a happy festive atmosphere.
In the paper-cutting session, teacher Zhang Tingting fromICEO introduced one of the oldest Chinese folk arts in China - paper-cutting. Chinese paper-cutting has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage. A pair of scissors cuts the paper into various patterns to increase the festive atmosphere. The teachers and students at the scene were divided into three groups to experience Chinese paper-cutting with scissors and knives. The work "Fish" cut by Meng Xiaoen from Bangladesh waspraised by everyone. He explained: "The blank space in the middle of the square represents the ocean. fish swims in the sea". Chinese culture collided with new sparks in the cognition of international students.
In the lantern riddle guessing session, the riddles involved not only Chinese historical allusions such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Liu Guan and Zhang three brothers got together toguess a place name in Taiwan Province of China, but also included Chinese spelling such as "three days" and riddles of various animals. The guessing activity not only challenged the Chinese level of foreign teachers and students, but also allowed them to learn more about Chinese culture and further feel the charm of Chinese characters. The scene was relaxed and happy.
Tangyuan, as the protagonist of the Lantern Festival, is naturally indispensable. With the help and guidance of the community workers, everyone carefully kneaded a small piece of dough between the palms and rolled it into a circle. Not only learned traditional craftsmanship, but also deeply understood the meaning of "reunion". Vice President Zhang Hongxia also came to the scene to demonstrate the dumplings for foreign teachers and students.
The rich and varied activities come to an end in the joyful atmosphere of eating glutinous rice balls. Wang Wenshan quoted the Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji's "The Case of Qingyu·Yuanxi", "the east wind blooms a thousand trees at night, and even blows down, and the stars are like rain" to describe the grand occasion of the Chinese Lantern Festival, which is to express the hope to international students to have an in-depth understanding of Chinese traditional culture, experience Chinese traditional culture in person, and be a disseminator of Chinese culture.
