"Happy Chinese New Year" online activities come to an end in France

  Xinhua News Agency, Paris, March 2 (Reporter Tang Ji) The 2021 "Happy Chinese New Year" online series jointly organized by the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, France and the Sino-foreign Cultural Exchange Center recently came to an end in France, and the activities lasted for nearly a month. The French people are paying close attention.

  This year's "Happy Chinese New Year" series of online activities will be held in the "Cloud" from February 4th to 26th to meet the French people.

During the event, the organizer will launch a variety of activities through the official website of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, WeChat public account, overseas social media and other platforms, such as the "Appreciation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Chinese New Year" series of video exhibitions, and the "Beautiful China" micro-spring gala "Knowing the Years and Customs and Appreciating Food" series of videos, "Auspicious Spring Festival·Good Wishes" Chinese New Year Cultural Picture Retrospective, "Chunhua National Rhyme" folk concert at the Central Opera and Dance Theater, and "Traditional Festival Promotion" cultural column and "Online bilingual lantern riddles guessing" etc.

  According to the organizer's statistics, the "Happy Chinese New Year" event has attracted wide attention from the French people, attracting nearly 1.2 million online audiences and nearly 9.2 million TV audiences.

French netizens have participated in discussions on hot topics.

  Netizen Francis Vaz said: "The videos of Yangzhou puppet show are exquisite, elegant and poetic. Suzhou weaving, dyeing and embroidery are so beautiful!" Netizen Vari said: "The Spring Festival Cultural Photo Exhibition is wonderful. This spirit of loyalty to traditions. Very rare."

  In an interview with reporters recently, She Mingyuan, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, said that the Spring Festival activities are well-known in France.

Affected by the epidemic in Europe, this year's "Happy Chinese New Year" event takes an online format. It is hoped that the Chinese and French people will experience the festive and peaceful New Year atmosphere in the lively online experience and fierce interaction.