China News Service, Beijing, June 3. On the 3rd is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. Many foreign friends and local residents in various parts of China made rice dumplings, made sachets, and raced dragon boats to celebrate the festival and experience the Dragon Boat Festival culture.
German He Rui tried making rice dumplings for the first time on the 2nd under the guidance of villagers in Zhuyi Village, Daoming Town, Chongzhou City, Chengdu.
"It's very interesting to be able to eat dumplings made by yourself during the Dragon Boat Festival this year."
On the same day, six "foreign residents" from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, and Nepal walked into the Bamboo Art Village. While experiencing the Dragon Boat Festival folk customs, they also climbed the mountain to find bamboo shoots and felt the joy of harvesting.
In the bamboo forest of Bamboo Art Village, foreign friends looked attentively and leaned over the land covered with bamboo leaves to find bamboo shoots.
When he learned that the zongzi leaves used to make zongzi are derived from a special kind of bamboo, the Frenchman Rohan even smiled and said, "Bamboo is really full of treasures."
"Although I have eaten rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival before, but through today's event, I have a deeper understanding of the story behind the Dragon Boat Festival, which is very meaningful." During the event, Amar from Nepal always brought a camera and kept using The camera captures precious moments.
The first World Dragon Boat League (Fuzhou Station) in 2022 will be held at the Puxia River Dragon Boat Pool in Fuzhou on the 3rd, attracting teams from Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and other international friends to compete with paddles.
"When we played the drums, we shouted together on the dragon boat, just like watching a Chinese movie." When he left the dragon boat pool after the race, Vasily from Russia was still excited, "Dragon boat racing has a strong Chinese culture and is not an ordinary sport. "
According to Abbott, a "post-90s" from Kazakhstan, the charm of dragon boat competition lies in teamwork.
"We Kazakhs grew up on horseback, and riding is completely controlled by individuals; dragon boats depend on everyone's coordination. When a person's buttocks move, the boat is shaking." Abbott sighed after teasing, but this is Dragon boating is fun, challenging and requires collaboration.
This year, the first foreign-funded enterprise games will be held in Tianjin, and the dragon boat race is one of the important events.
Although the dragon boat race was postponed due to the epidemic, many teams from abroad have never stopped practicing.
Julian, Head Principal of Tianjin Wellington School, said: "This is a very exciting event. The school's staff and their families love the competition. We can also learn about Chinese culture and feel the enthusiasm of the city. The Dragon Boat Festival is a great event. One of the most important traditional Chinese festivals, even if we can’t compete, we can practice by ourselves, which is also a way to celebrate.”
Recently, in Jimingshan Community, Jiangdong Street, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, resident foreigners from Germany, Afghanistan, South Korea and other countries and regions in Yiwu and local Chinese residents made rice dumplings and sachets together.
During the event, many children from all over the world played together and painted the Dragon Boat Festival "Blessing Eggs" together.
The customs and Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down for thousands of years, are also the common cultural bond and emotional memory of Chinese children at home and abroad.
Representatives of overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Wuhan, and representatives of returned overseas students sat around the head of Parrot Island in Hanyang on the 2nd, reciting their nostalgia, chatting about customs, and welcoming the Dragon Boat Festival.
Not long after, a heart-shaped pattern composed of zongzi came together.
"In Macau, there is still the custom of hanging wormwood and racing dragon boats." Su Wating, a doctor from Macau and currently working in the Department of Anesthesiology of the People's Hospital of Wuhan University, introduced that dragon boats in Macau are auspicious, and people think that "dragon boat water" means good luck. "Da Ji Shui", after washing the "Dragon Boat Water", it will be auspicious and everything will go well.
Xiao Yongrui, president of the Wuhan Taiwan-funded Enterprise Association, said that Taiwan and the mainland have similar Dragon Boat Festival customs.
On June 1, the Confucius Institute at the University of Alazar in Indonesia held an online celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival. More than 120 teachers and students from various teaching sites of the Confucius Institute participated in the activity.
The Confucius Institute teacher Hu Yahui interacted with the participants on the two themes of "Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival Customs" in a perfect combination of text and pictures; Teacher Zhang Ziwei introduced the custom of "Dragon Boat Race" on the Dragon Boat Festival; The live broadcast of making zongzi introduced the culture behind the different tastes of the zongzi in the north and the south. Teacher Wei Mengru introduced the process of making sachets and explained the magic use of sachets in life.
Indonesian students said that the activity aroused their strong interest in the Dragon Boat Festival and Chinese culture, and they wanted to experience the fun of making rice dumplings and making sachets.
(End) (Participating in the report: Yue Yitong, Peng Lifang, Wang Junyan, Zhang Shaoxuan, Shi Yunyu, Dong Yixin, Lu Bin, Zhang Qin and Lin Yongchuan)