Berlin, February 25 (Reporter Ma Xiuxiu) On the occasion of the Chinese Lantern Festival, the Chinese Cultural Center in Berlin held the "Happy New Year - Entering the Center for the New Year" activity on the 24th, attracting nearly 400 Chinese and German friends to participate.
Chinese and German friends are in full swing to make glutinous rice balls. Courtesy of the Chinese Cultural Center Berlin.
In the exhibition hall, reading room and classrooms, the center arranged booths for a variety of Spring Festival cultural interactive experience activities such as Chinese, calligraphy, Hanfu, handicrafts, lantern riddles, dumplings and dumplings, attracting visitors to participate in the experience. The center has also carefully prepared lantern riddles and Chinese knowledge quizzes about the Chinese New Year, history and culture, city introduction, etc., and the audience who answers correctly can get exquisite gifts.
Handmade experience site. Courtesy of the Chinese Cultural Center Berlin.
The Spring Festival theatrical performance and the first link are the highlight of the event. On behalf of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, Minister Zeng Yingru of the Chinese Embassy in Germany first extended New Year greetings to the Chinese and German friends present. Chinese literary and artistic societies such as the Dance Troupe of the Chinese Cultural Center in Berlin, the Berlin Huanting Dance Troupe and the Chinese Children's Choir respectively brought wonderful programs such as the dance "Elephant King Xing", the dance "A Dream of Dunhuang", and the children's skewer song "Slow Voice + Dynasty Song"; The Hanfu show "Shenren Chang - New Year's Prayer" performed by the German Chinese Language Society used the guqin to play traditional sacrificial songs, supplemented by Hanfu that has been inherited for thousands of years; Anna Jacquesch, a lover of Chinese folk music, played the famous guzheng song "Fishing Boat Singing Evening"; Chen Ning, a Peking Opera ticket holder, sang excerpts from "Ganlu Temple" and the Peking Opera version of "Santa Lucia", and vividly explained the knowledge of the quintessential Peking Opera in German. Referring to the wonderful magic program "Keeping the New Year at this time" performed by Liu Qian at this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the center also arranged a magic interactive program.
Dance "A Dream of Dunhuang". Courtesy of the Chinese Cultural Center Berlin.
Towards the end of the event, the staff brought out hot dumplings and Lantern Festival, allowing the audience to taste the taste of the "Chinese New Year" made by themselves.
Guess the lantern riddles during the Lantern Festival. Courtesy of the Chinese Cultural Center Berlin.
In January and February this year, the "Happy New Year" series of activities held by the China Cultural Center in Berlin were full of performances, and the Lantern Festival celebration of "Entering the Center for the New Year" was the "finale" of the center's Spring Festival activities this year. Sun Qinhang, director of the center, said that the Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, and since ancient times, there have been a series of folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In order to allow local people to experience the Chinese New Year culture up close, the center specially planned and organized this event, inviting Chinese and German friends to the center to celebrate the Lantern Festival together, spend an unforgettable Chinese New Year in a traditional way, and also successfully conclude the center's 2024 "Happy New Year" series of activities. (ENDS).
*: China News Network.