(College at the grassroots level in the Spring Festival) Making Zhuang brocade sachets and guessing lantern riddles ASEAN students appreciate the "Year of China"

　　Chinanews.com, Nanning, January 20th: Make Zhuang brocade sachets and guess lantern riddles. ASEAN students appreciate the "Year of China"

　　Reporter Huang Yanmei

　　"It's the first time I made Guangxi Zhuangjin gourd sachet. It is not only beautiful, but also symbolizes auspiciousness. The Chinese herbal medicine inside can prevent diseases and protect health. I like it very much." The sachet, he happily hung it around his neck and was reluctant to take it off.

The picture shows foreign students making dumplings.

Photo by Yu Jing

　　Making sachets, guessing lantern riddles, making dumplings, performing arts... A Spring Festival group gathering full of "New Year flavor" was held at Guangxi University for Nationalities that day.

The event site was covered with lanterns, lucky characters and cute rabbit-element ornaments. More than 60 international students from ASEAN countries and more than ten countries including Russia, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan experienced a different kind of "Chinese Year" with Chinese teachers and felt China. The unique charm of traditional culture.

　　"The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China. This is the first time I have celebrated the Chinese New Year." Chen Lihua said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that the Spring Festival is a cultural festival for the Chinese and a means of understanding China for the world. window with bridge.

He felt very happy and blessed to be able to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his teachers and classmates on the Chinese campus.

　　Chen Lihua is from Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. He is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in international trade at the School of International Education, Guangxi University for Nationalities.

He came to Guangxi in 2019, and then took online classes in Cambodia for two years due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. He came to Guangxi again in November 2022.

　　On the same day, Chen Lihua brought the guitar accompaniment "Confession Balloon" and the flute performance "Ordinary Road" and "Beyond Light Years", winning bursts of applause and applause.

"The school also sent New Year's gift packages to international students, which made us feel the reunion of family and the warmth of a big family, which was unforgettable." He said.

　　An Ning, a student from Laos, dressed up carefully and presided over the performance of the day in traditional Lao costumes. This is the second time that An Ning celebrates the Chinese New Year at school.

"Here, I met many warm-hearted friends, experienced Chinese culture in the strong flavor of the New Year, and found the feeling of home, which is very interesting and happy." She said.

The picture shows ASEAN students performing a song and dance program.

Photo by Yu Jing

　　An Ning is a 2019 student majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages ​​at the School of International Education, Guangxi University for Nationalities.

She said: "The days of studying and living in China are very happy. The school will hold various cultural experience activities and extracurricular practical activities to enrich the extracurricular life of international students. The teachers care about us like family members and make us feel very warm. "

　　Ye Zhengqing from Indonesia has not returned to China for three years.

In an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com, he said that he had a very good life in China in the past three years and was very happy.

"There are many Chinese in Indonesia, who have brought Chinese culture and customs to the local area. I have also experienced some Spring Festival culture in Indonesia, but in China, the sense of ceremony is stronger and the atmosphere of festivities is stronger." He said.

The picture shows Xie Shangguo, President of Guangxi University for Nationalities, giving New Year gift packages to international students.

Photo by Yu Jing

　　After the two-hour party, the school prepared sweet and sour fish, braised pork, roast duck, scrambled egg with tomato and other delicious dishes for the international students. Teachers and students ate dumplings and had a "reunion dinner" together, which was a joyous experience.

　　Guangxi University for Nationalities is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China to carry out exchanges and cooperation with neighboring countries. It has accumulatively recruited and trained nearly 20,000 students from ASEAN countries in China. It is a university in Guangxi that recruits more students from ASEAN countries.

According to the introduction of the school, more than 90% of the international students enrolled in the school are from ASEAN countries.

The picture shows a group photo of international students and teachers.

Photo by Yu Jing

　　"We hold the Chinese New Year gathering for foreign students, and hope that foreign students will have a happy, peaceful and festive Chinese New Year in the school. We will continue to strengthen the connotation of the brand of 'Students in China', and strive to improve the quality of education for foreign students. We hope that more foreign students will Understand the real Chinese society and learn more about Chinese culture, and become a bridge of cultural exchanges between respective countries and China, and a friendship envoy of friendly cooperation.” said Cui Xiaolin, vice president of Guangxi University for Nationalities.

　　Guangxi is the only province in China that is connected to ASEAN by land and sea, and it is the frontier and window for China to open up and cooperate with ASEAN.

At present, Guangxi has become one of the provinces in China that receive the most overseas students from ASEAN countries.

Guangxi is taking the opportunity of building a China-ASEAN Educational Open Cooperation Pilot Zone to build a highland for ASEAN-oriented education cooperation.

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