On the second night of the Lunar New Year on February 11, 2024, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng and his wife** were invited to attend the 2024 "Washington Spring Festival Gala" hosted by the Federation of Hometown Associations in Washington, D.C., and performed with more than 1,200 local overseas Chinese to share the taste of the New Year and the joy of spring.
Ambassador Xie Feng delivered a sincere and warm speech at the party, sending New Year greetings to the overseas Chinese. Xie Feng said: A few days ago, I invited overseas Chinese in the United States to the embassy to "go home for the New Year" and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and I am very happy that I will come to visit the New Year and taste the "cultural feast" on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Whether you watch the "CCTV Spring Festival Gala" in Beijing or watch the "Washington Spring Festival Gala" with everyone, they are all equally warm and cordial!
Xie Feng said that the Year of the Rabbit that has just passed is very extraordinary, with China's epidemic prevention and control taking a steady turn, the overall economic recovery is improving, and Chinese-style modernization is advancing steadily. The successful meeting between the Chinese and US heads of state in San Francisco has promoted the stabilization of China-US relations, clarified the "San Francisco Vision" of joint efforts between the two sides, and once again stood at a new starting point for China-US relations.
Xie Feng said that the vast number of overseas Chinese in the United States have taken root in the local area, are attached to Sangzi, actively integrated into the mainstream society of the United States, firmly supported the development of Sino-US relations, carried forward the excellent Chinese culture, made positive contributions to the local economic and social development, and played an important role in promoting Sino-US exchanges and cooperation. Everyone has proved with their actions that the sons and daughters of China can take root and blossom and shine, and they will pass on the feelings of their family and country and let Chinese culture go to the world.
Xie Feng said that the theme of this year's "Washington Spring Festival Gala" is "Flying Dreams, Welcoming Spring", and wishes the ancestral (home) country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean prosperity! I wish China-US relations to be stable and good! I wish you all the best in the Year of the Dragon, show the momentum of the dragon and the tiger, continue to fly the dreams in your heart, and march towards a better future!
The party is divided into three chapters: "Rhythmic New Year", "National Wind Welcomes Spring", and "Spring is Full of Beauty", which emotionally tells a spring full of vitality, hope and strength in the Year of the Dragon. The song and dance performances show the gentleness and tenderness of China's water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the unrestrained heroism of the northern land, and the mysterious romance of Dunhuang in the desert, all of which are infiltrated with deep attachment to their hometown. The program not only has the "mash-up" of erhu and Western percussion, but also the "Love in the Mountains" full of Chinese style and the "Subject 3", which is currently popular on the whole network; There are not only drama sketches that integrate the regional culture of northern and southern China, but also wonderful martial arts performances of the little "descendants of the dragon". A performance, dreaming of returning to the land of the ancestral (home) country. Ambassador Xie Feng and his wife interacted warmly with the overseas Chinese and took a group photo to spend a beautiful evening full of New Year's flavor and joy.
*: Chinese Embassy in the United States**).