The footsteps of Christmas are getting closer, the New Year's bell is about to ring, and the whole Fuso is immersed in the joyful atmosphere of welcoming the Year of the Dragon before Chinese New Year's Eve. 
On the afternoon of December 10th, Hotel Bellclassic Tokyo in Otsuka, Tokyo, ushered in the annual happy moment of beauty gathering - "Tokyo Chinese Festival 2023" was successfully held here. On the fashionable T-shaped catwalk, Japanese girls dressed in traditional Chinese costumes and cheongsams appeared in turn, smiling and smiling, and their graceful posture and youthful vitality showed the dignified and subtle beauty of traditional women and the confident and flamboyant beauty of modern women to the fullest, and dedicated a highly infectious visual feast to the audience. 
The first to appear in this competition are the 10 finalists of the "Vigorous Youth Group". Each of them made careful preparations, from the gait of the catwalk, the style of the cheongsam, the color to the props in their hands, and the self-introduction session in Chinese, all showed the feminine and dignified side, and won warm applause from the audience. 
Apollen
After intense competition, the top five players in the "Vigorous Youth Group" were: Xin Meiying, who was born in Liaoning, China and went to Japan at the age of 7The fourth place is Chinese-Japanese, and she is active as a model and Internet celebrityThe third runner-up from Hong Kong, China, who is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean, French, and can also play traditional Chinese instruments, won the first place with Apollen, a Chinese-Japanese born who came to Japan at the age of 9. In addition, the special awards were: Amateur Award Shupo, Top Star Award, Tsingtao Beer Award, Japan-China Friendship Ambassador Award, Harako Hara, CREA Beauty Award, Kiya Takeharuna, and CLER Award: Awaren
Innocent Girl GroupThe "Innocent Girl Group", which is composed of elementary and middle school students, has attracted a lot of attention as soon as it took the stage. The youngest contestant, Yosako Inoue, is only 9 years old, she likes Chinese dramas, and her simple love for cheongsam culture makes people see the hope of the future inheritance of cheongsam;She and 15-year-old Misaku Cleara, who loves Chinese pop culture, both won the Top Star Award. The first prize in the girls' category was won by 14-year-old 14-year-old model Mariam, a 1.70-meter-tall second-year junior high school student. Her fluent Chinese amazed the judges on the spot. 
Legendary Endeavour Group
The "Legend Endeavor Group" is the 4 players who participated in this competition last year and have made unremitting efforts to challenge again this year. The winners are Milei Otohata, who has gone from being fascinated by the craze of Chinese cosmetics to being moved by the essence of Chinese medicine and food, and is currently taking a vacation to travel to China to spread the beauty of China to the Japanese. Her beautiful image of her unyielding struggle against the sequelae of the new crown left a deep impression on the audience. 
Milei Otohata. Elegant Ladies Group.
For the first time in the history of this year's event, the final number of participants in the "Elegant Ladies Category" reached 25!They are elegant, intellectual, and have a variety of manners, and as they grow older, they have a unique charm. Each cheongsam is like a beautiful picture, allowing the audience to feel the profound heritage of Chinese culture. The top five contestants in the wife category are: Nana Kosugi, the fifth who has suffered from severe postpartum depression twice and finally overcame herself;The fourth is a dietitian in charge of the hospital, and she spreads healthy eating through SNSThe third is Tomoko Misaki, who started studying XiChinese due to losing her job due to the epidemic and is now a bilingual announcer in China and JapanThe runner-up was won by Abe, who has a Chinese business mentor and has benefited greatly from work and life, and the champion Abe Whenever she encounters difficulties in China, there are always enthusiastic Chinese who lend her helping hand, and she said with tears in her acceptance speech: No one can love China more wholeheartedly than herself, and she will work hard to let more Japanese people who do not know China also fall in love with China, which is her dream.
Abe The special awards in the "Elegant Lady Category" are: MARUKO Special Award, Mitsuki Oshihiro, Amateras Special Award, Mirei Watara, Lianjia Special Award, Koshima Top Star Special Award, Rika Morimoto, Tsingtao Beer Special Award, Mirata Awards, Mirada Abe, Crea Mine, Komie Mizuguchi, and CLER Awards.
The operator of this competition, "Tokyo Mandarin Award", is a talent show platform specializing in Japan's largest entertainment project in the Chinese circle, and after taking a solid step from the first conference in December 2019, the beautiful concept of the Tokyo Chinese Festival - through the cheongsam, which can best symbolize the symbol of traditional Chinese fashion culture, through Chinese teaching, SNS promotion and other means, down-to-earth efforts to promote Sino-Japanese friendship, bit by bit, with the years have grown into an important force of Sino-Japanese friendship. In each competition, the judges will judge the contestants based on their attire, mental outlook, catwalk, Chinese speeches, SNS submissions, etc. The contestants came from all over Japan, and in order to achieve good results, they systematically trained hard in manners, steps, polling, speeches, and learning the basics Xi of Chinese SNS before the competition, and made unremitting efforts. Today, the sweat of hard work has finally paid off, flowers, applause, honor is the result of the efforts of the beauties, in the best wishes to them at the same time, I hope that they will make persistent efforts in the days to come, continue to contribute to Sino-Japanese friendship.
The winners of the first and second places in this competition will become the exclusive models of the "Tsingtao Beer" advertisement loved by more than 100 countries in the worldThe top five winners will have the opportunity to work with cases from large Chinese companiesOpportunity to collaborate with famous influencers on SNS in China;Have the opportunity to get a large-scale interview in China;This is the chance to appear in a famous Japanese women's magazine. As a friendship ambassador connecting Japan and China, he will be invited to participate in various public welfare activities. Let's look forward to the future activities of the winners!