This article**[China News Network];
**Paris, February 24 On the evening of February 23, local time, on the eve of the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Dragon, the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris held a "Hello! China" "Yu Garden Lantern Festival Food Night" event
According to reports, as the finale of the 2024 "Happy New Year" series of activities of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, this event added the "'Hello! China's 'Lantern Festival' is a global 24-hour live broadcast framework, which is disseminated through multiple ** platforms.
More than 100 guests attended the event, including Qu Xing, Deputy Director-General of UNESCO, Josiane Gaude, Deputy Mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Damien Cesselin, Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Assembly of la Francophonie, Yves Gagneau, Director of the Memorial Hall of Balzac, and Jacques Legrand, former President of the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures. The guests first watched the promotional video of the Lantern Festival Gala of ** Radio and Television Station, and then enjoyed the cultural performance.
After the performance, the guests visited the Lantern Festival. With the 2024 zodiac "Dragon" and various mysterious and imaginative "mythical beasts" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as the "protagonists", the unique traditional intangible cultural heritage crafts combined with new technology and new materials have created a dreamy wonderland of "between the mountains and the sea, free and spiritual". The guests shuttled between the bright lanterns of different forms, and all kinds of rare beasts, flowers and fairy grasses came into view. The title of "Mountains and Seas Have Spirits" is a clever use of the homonym of "friends and neighbors in mountains and seas", implying the profound meaning that China and France have always had a long-lasting friendship even if they are separated by mountains and seas. From the ancient life picture scroll to the fireworks market, there are a variety of traditional Chinese snacks, such as Nanxiang xiaolongbao, rock sugar gourd, hand-cut noodles and ......The variety of delicacies is mouth-watering, and the public who come and go to taste them is endless. The "A Bite of China" food experience allowed participants to feel the diverse charm of traditional Chinese culture more deeply.
The "Hello! China's "Yu Garden Lantern Festival Food Night" was well received by the guests, who not only listened to the traditional Chinese **, felt the traditional atmosphere of the Lantern Festival, explored the profound Chinese cultural stories from the "Mountains and Seas" Lantern Festival, and the food tasting session with a strong atmosphere of life made the participants full of praise. (ENDS).