On January 14 and January 17, 2020, teachers from Confucius Institute at Assumption University held activities to celebrate Chinese spring festival with 6000 teachers and students from Nawamintharachinuthit Triamudomsuksapattanakarn School and Assumption College Rayong.
This Chinese spring festival celebration not only included spring festival gala, traditional culture exhibition, HSK and YCT awards for outstanding students, but also included a variety of Chinese traditional culture experience programs. All performances were full of New Tear flavour, including lion dance, Sichuan opera face changing, instrumental performance, sing and dancing performance, Chinese traditional acrobatics and magic performance.
On the 15th, a wonderful lion dance performance kicked off at Nawamintharachinuthit Triamudomsuksapattanakarn School . With a cheerful drumbeat, the mighty lion jumped up and down. Subsequent Sichuan operas changed their face, acrobatics, magic and other programs, which won applause from teachers, students and parents. The song and dance performances "Fengzheng Wu", "Moonlight Thoughts" and "You Exist in My Song" created a happy and festive atmosphere for the audience. At the same time, CIAU also prepared cultural experience activities such as writing Spring Festival couplets, paper cutting, Chinese knots, and Facial makeup. Students wrote "Spring", "Blessing", "Peace", and "Happiness" in a stroke, hoping to bring home the blessings of the Spring Festival and share them with their families.
The traditional Chinese lion dance performance, Chinese kung fu and ethnic dance won applause at Assumption College Rayong on January 17. The Chinese songs and dances "Big Bowl Thick Noodle", "Moon Reflects Thousands Cups", "Western Style" and "Mang Chung" brought the celebration to a climax. During the cultural experience activities, the teachers and students not only made dumplings together, learned about the Chinese Spring Festival customs, but also jointly wrote Spring Festival couplets, fan group fans, made paper-cuts and carved paper. The "Happy Chinese New Year" photo exhibition showed the Chinese New Year celebration customs in different regions of the country. Thai teachers and students could understand and experience the Chinese New Year culture more intuitively.
These Spring Festival Activities displayed the colorful Chinese culture, which not only brought an audio-visual feast of Chinese culture to Thai teachers and students, but also let more Thai students gain a strong sense of Chinese culture. In the new year, adhere to innovation and development continuously, actively deepen pragmatic cooperation with local institutions, and push the work of the Confucius Institute to a new level.
Edited by Ms. Zhang Mengyuan
Photographed by Mr. Yuan Zheng
Revised by Ms. Yang Hairong
Translated by Ms. Jiang Mengyin