Taiyuan, December 22 (Reporter Yang Jing) On the evening of the 21st, the 2024 New Year's Gala for International Students in Shanxi Province was held at Shanxi University, with more than 150 international students from 11 countries including Laos, Pakistan, Mongolia, and Bangladesh bringing performances such as singing and dancing, opera, and costume displays, showing profound Chinese culture and rich and colorful world culture.
The 2024 New Year's Gala for International Students in Shanxi Province was held at Shanxi University. Photo by Zhang Licheng.
The party was hosted by the Shanxi Provincial People's Foreign Affairs Office and the Shanxi Provincial People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and hosted by Shanxi University. The event aims to strengthen mutual understanding between international students from different cultural backgrounds, improve their sense of belonging and integration, let international students be good messengers of friendship and disseminators of culture, and further promote Chinese and foreign young people to work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind and tell the Shanxi chapter of China's story.
International students wear their own costumes to showcase the unique customs and aesthetics of different parts of the world. Photo by Yang Jing.
The costume display "Four Seas Coat of Arms" kicked off the party, and students from Laos, Thailand, Afghanistan and other countries wore their own costumes to show the unique customs and aesthetics of all over the world.
Clothing can showcase a country's culture. Vu Quoc Siang, a Vietnamese student who participated in the costume display, said: "I also like traditional Chinese costumes such as Hanfu, and I also wear horse-faced skirts, which looks very good." ”
Wu Guoxiang has a soft spot for Chinese characters, which he feels contain thousands of years of Chinese history. After coming to China to study, he often participated in speeches and singing competitions organized by the school.
Chopaphan, an international student from Laos, not only participated in the costume display performance, but also performed the dance "Laos-Thailand Rocket Festival" with students from Thailand, "The instruments and props used in the dance are all made by ourselves, and we want to show everyone the culture of our country. ”
She studied Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages at Taiyuan University of Technology, where she studied at a Chinese school in Laos and was fascinated by traditional Chinese culture. Before she came to China to study, she had learned paper-cutting, tai chi, classical Chinese dance, etc., and after coming to China to study, she felt the convenience of life here, and also fell in love with dumplings, snail noodles and other delicacies.
Many friends around me want to learn Chinese, and Chinese is becoming more and more popular in our country. After graduation, Chopaphan plans to return to Laos to become a Chinese teacher, hoping to spread Chinese culture and be an ambassador of cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Taiyuan University of Technology's selected program "Yin Mengge Rookie". Photo by Yang Jing.
The friendship between countries lies in the people-to-people relationship, and the people-to-people relationship lies in the heart-to-heart connection. Dong Xiaolin, director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Foreign Affairs Office, hoped that the students would strengthen communication and exchanges, enhance mutual understanding, establish long-term friendship, inject fresh blood and inexhaustible motivation into the consolidation and development of friendly exchanges between people of all countries, and jointly practice a community with a shared future for mankind with youthful vitality and struggle. (ENDS).