Wellington New Zealand's cultural and commercial alliance launched the fiery "Year of the Dragon Blessing and Spring Festival Couplets" activity
Text: Yao Guoling (New Zealand) original
Figure Ye Yong, Huang Sijing, Ma Bingyang and others
Spring spring breeze, spring mighty dragon year dragon year dragon soar". February 3, 2024Wellington New Zealand Yafeng Club and Wellington "Zhen's" Chinese Supermarket jointly held the "New Year's Spring Festival Couplets Blessing Word Activity" for the fourth timeUnder Wellington, Hart is once again on the scene. The Spring Festival couplets are golden and flashing, and the big red banner is hung high; Ink painting, Peking Opera masks, exquisite seal carvings; There is also a paper-making masterpiece "auspicious dragon soaring".
China's Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon has aroused the enthusiasm of the Chinese diaspora and multi-ethnic people in Wellington, and there is an endless stream of people who come to receive the Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters for the Year of the Dragon. Vice-President of the New Zealand Local** Association and Mayor of Lower Hart.
Mayor Campbell Barry and Mrs
Deputy Mayor Tui Lewis, City Councilmember Chris Parkin, and City Business Promoter Dean Dean Grocott were all on hand. Minister Counsellor Ye Su of the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand, because he went to Auckland on official business, delivered a number of Spring Festival couplets in advance to the scene, and Zeng Fanjing and Chen Yuli of the embassy were present to participate in the event to congratulate.
Mayor of Lower Hart (third from left) and Deputy Mayor (fourth from left).
The calligraphy teachers of the Yafeng Club prepared early, each of them wrote nearly 100 couplets and Fang Dou Fu characters in advance, and Mr. Xie of Taiwan also wrote more than a dozen pairs of Spring Festival couplets, and there were nearly 400 Spring Festival couplets for the public to choose and receive on the same day, and there were more than 400 blessing characters, as well as the ink treasures asked by the people on the spot. Some of the teachers at Yafeng Club worked tirelessly to set up the event venue a day in advance.
Zhen's supermarket did its best to make friends with the landlord, in the shopping mall where every inch of land is like gold, and set up a long table for the calligraphy teacher to wave on the spot, from 9 o'clock in the morning to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the long table was crowded with people, and in the face of enthusiastic customers, the calligraphy teacher was overwhelmed, writing the Year of the Dragon couplets and blessing characters for several hours, until the red paper was exhausted.
Teacher Liu Qianxiang taught Mayor Xia Hart to write blessing characters on the spot.
A European aunt asked for a couplet about her dragon's son's upcoming wedding, informing her son that he would get married in August this year.
Teacher Liu Qianxiang immediately wrote, and Teacher Chen Yongnian attached the English and Chinese names of the aunt's son and prospective daughter-in-law, and wrote the traditional Chinese blessing "A Hundred Years of Good Harmony" and gave it away.
Teacher Chen Yongnian instructed the children to know the word Fu on the spot.
Teacher Huang Sijing and teacher Liu Qianxiang taught local children to write calligraphy on the spot.
Mayor Hart delivered the following speech on the spot: Celebrating the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Lunar Calendar, thanking Yafeng Club and Zhen's Supermarket for spreading Chinese culture and promoting the multicultural development of Lower Hart. He said that he had gone to Fuzhou, China to participate in the "Second Silk Road International Competition" and felt the charm of different traditional cultures.
The 2024 desk calendar of "New Zealand Historical Events Happening Today" edited by Mr. Ye Yong of Yafeng Club was presented to shoppers by Zhen's Supermarket, and Mayor Barry praised Yafeng Club and Zhen's Supermarket for spreading Chinese culture while introducing New Zealand's history and culture to the Chinese people.
Deputy Mayor Nizhny Hart's speech was intimate and touching, she said that she was of Chinese descent and that her grandfather was also a Chinese immigrant, and she was extremely relieved and proud to see the Chinese New Year celebrated so vigorously by the Chinese diaspora today.
Zhen's Supermarket also provides free barbecued pork buns to the people who enter the shopping and participate in the Spring Festival couplets and Fu Zi to taste. Every men, women and children who participated in the event were happy to shop, happily receive the blessings and lead the Spring Festival couplets home.
Yes, overseas Chinese come from China, and only by passing on the brilliant traditional Chinese culture from generation to generation can we be worthy of being the descendants of the dragon. Although we live overseas, but the motherland is around, the Chinese Embassy in Singapore is our maiden home and backer, every festive season to think of relatives, "spring to the world dragon dream, popular in the world of the Chinese year"!
Ye Yong's improvised poems for the Spring Festival couplets activity:
Five Uniques: "Spring Festival Couplets Four Years Ji".
When welcoming the dragon and rabbit tail, Zhen's Yafeng flag. Filled with red flavors. Spring Festival couplets send blessings.
Huang Sijing improvised poems for the Spring Festival couplets:
Eight Voices of Ganzhou "Drunk Writing on the Top of the Clouds".
New Year's greetings and blessings are given Spring Festival couplets, with a heritage of 5,000 years.
Gathering Confucianism and elegance, skillful paper-cutting, face painting.
The color painting inherits a few strokes, and the ink rhyme is written.
Red casts the taste of the countryside, joy and peace.
Guosheng overseas Chinese raised their heads, introduced Kyushu culture, and drunk to write on the top of the clouds.
Remembering the new fifty, the wind and rain are idle.
Justice is in, the east and west are exemplary, vowing to the people, and the road is far away.
Shenlong dream, hand in hand, smile proudly.