Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 13 (Xinhua) -- Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency's foreign correspondent reports: The golden dragon is dedicated to Rui, and the whole world celebrates. In the past few days, overseas Chinese sons and daughters and people from all over the world have held various Spring Festival celebrations for the Year of the Dragon to experience the fun of traditional Chinese culture and the festive atmosphere of the New Year.
On February 3, at the Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo, Egypt, people experienced Chinese landscape painting at the "Happy Spring Festival - Walking Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" event. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Ahmed Gomaa) * The Chinese Orchestra's Spring Festival European Tour of "Heaven and Earth Yongle China Festival" was held in the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, Poland on the 12th, with more than 1,000 guests from all walks of life performing. The opening song "Heaven and Earth Eternal Music Overture" performed by the Chinese and Polish ** artists made the audience feel as if they were in the colorful land of China with a graceful melody. "Lantern Festival, Lantern Watching", "Qingming, Qingqing Missing" and other pieces came one after another, showing the unique charm of Chinese folk music and conveying the rich cultural heritage of traditional Chinese festivals. After the performance, audience member Alex said: "This is the first time I have had a close encounter with the Chinese nation**, and its beauty and shock are beyond my imagination. ”
The 2024 Vienna Spring Voice Chinese New Year ** will be held in the Vienna Golden Hall of Austria on the 11th to celebrate the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar. **Conducted by Austrian conductor Friedrich Ffeiffer, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the China ** Opera House will jointly perform works by Mozart, Strauss and other Western masters and Chinese classics "Spring Festival Overture" and "Liang Zhu", etc., winning the audience's long-lasting applause.
The Confucius Institute at the University of Zagreb and the Jiangsu Electric Power Design Institute of China Energy Construction Group, which undertook the construction of the Rijeka Sewage Treatment Plant project, formed a team to participate in the Carnival parade in Rijeka, Croatia on the 11th, showing Chinese culture such as dragon dance and Hanfu performance. The audience took out their mobile phones to take pictures and applauded enthusiastically. The mayor of Rijeka, Filippovic, told reporters that the Chinese team has performed well and hopes to strengthen the friendly and cooperative relations between Rijeka and Chinese cities.
Vladivostok, the capital of Primorsky Krai, Russia, held the Chinese New Year celebration for the first time in the central square on the 10th, attracting a large number of citizens and tourists, and qigong, tea tasting, kite flying and other experience activities are the most popular. Artistic troupes of Primorsky Krai performed dragon dances, kalinka dances, fire art and other programs.
The Confucius Institute at Transylvania University in Brasov, Romania held a Spring Festival celebration of the Year of the Dragon on the 9th, attracting many teachers and students to participate. Everyone's first theatrical performance, taste dumplings, spring rolls and other delicacies, and experience traditional Chinese culture such as calligraphy and paper-cutting.
The Confucius Institute and the Higher Institute of Languages at the University of Carthage in Tunis held a Chinese New Year party on the 7th, and Tunisian students sang Chinese songs, performed Chinese kung fu, and displayed Chinese national costumes, showing a solid level of Chinese and love for Chinese culture.
The Chinese Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan and the TAG Confucius Institute in Jordan recently held a Chinese New Year campus event at Mashrag International School, where students from the school participated in Chinese cultural activities such as dragon dance, tea tasting, writing blessing characters, and weaving Chinese knots. Haya Murad, a teacher at the school, said the event was a good opportunity for students to learn about traditional Chinese culture and customs.
The 2024 Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Dragon, hosted by the All-French Chinese Scholars and Students Association, was recently held at the Palais des Congrès in Issy-les-Moulinaux, near Paris, France, attended by nearly 1,000 people, including Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye and more than 800 students studying in France. The poetry recitation "The Moment I Set Foot in France", the kung fu dance "Wing Chun", the chorus "Country", and the skewering of Chinese and Western musical instruments showed the charm of China's excellent traditional culture, the achievements of cultural exchanges between China and France, and the youthful vitality of students studying in France.
This is the scene of the "Happy New Year" event held at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, France on February 3. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing) The Tokyo Multi-Symphony Orchestra, initiated and operated by overseas Chinese in Japan, recently held the 2024 Chinese New Year ** Party in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Cheerful and powerful classic songs such as "Spring Festival Overture" and "Good News from Beijing to the Border Village" were played one after another, and about 1,000 Japanese and Chinese friends, including former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, gathered together to feel the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon.
The "Year of China" performance held by the Chinese community in Cape Town, South Africa, attracted more than 1,000 overseas Chinese and local people**. The drummers of the Cape Town Huaxing Troupe kicked off with a shocking performance of "The Power of the Dragon". Since then, Peking Opera, solo, dance, chorus and other programs have been staged one after another, and South Africa's traditional Zulu and Hausa dances have also added a multicultural color to the performance.
The Chinese community in Hamburg, Germany and North Germany jointly held a Spring Festival party a few days ago, with dragon and lion dances, children's chorus, martial arts performances, cheongsam catwalks and ......The wonderful program was dizzying, and the applause came one after another. Müllerhahn, a spectator from Hamburg, Germany, said: "The event was very lively, and I was particularly impressed by the cheongsam catwalk, these traditional Chinese costumes are so beautiful! ”
The Confucius Institute at the University of Luxembourg recently held a Chinese New Year celebration in the center of Luxembourg with a dragon dance parade. To the sound of gongs and drums, two giant dragons come to life, swimming through the streets. Cultural experiences such as writing Chinese characters, various lanterns, ancient Hanfu, and tasting dumplings attracted thousands of people to participate.
The China Cultural Center in Cairo recently invited dozens of students from the Chinese Department of Badr University and outstanding students of the Chinese training course of the Cultural Center to participate in Spring Festival cultural activities such as writing blessing characters, making dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, cutting window flowers, weaving Chinese knots, and tasting tea. The students said that these vivid experiential activities made them understand that the Spring Festival is an important festival of reunion in the minds of Chinese.