Chinanews.com, Seoul, June 13 (Reporter Liu Xu) On the 12th, the theme event of "Gathering in the Clouds for the Dragon Boat Festival" of overseas Chinese in Korea "On the Clouds" was held in Seoul.
The event was hosted by the Chinese Embassy in South Korea and co-organized by the Seoul Chinese Cultural Center, the China Tourism Office in Seoul, and the China-Korea Children's Education Association.
Xing Haiming, Chinese Ambassador to South Korea, and Xu Chongen, head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Jilin Province, delivered speeches.
In South Korea, more than 120 people, including major overseas Chinese groups, overseas students, and representatives of Chinese-funded institutions, gathered in the cloud through the Internet to share their homesickness and the Dragon Boat Festival.
Chef Qiu Hengxing from the Chinese Cultural Center in Seoul showed the process of making zongzi.
Photo courtesy of Seoul Chinese Cultural Center
Ambassador Xing Haiming said in his speech that the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It embodies the spirit and emotion of the Chinese nation and is a family bond between overseas Chinese children and the motherland.
The Dragon Boat Festival can be called the "Sanitation and Epidemic Prevention Festival" in ancient China, and it still has important reference value in the current normalization stage of epidemic prevention and control.
Ambassador Xing also said that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. With the new crown epidemic raging around the world, China adheres to the philosophy of life first and people first, and joins hands with the world to fight the epidemic, achieving rapid economic recovery and continuous improvement. Positive growth situation.
Looking to the future, China will uphold the new development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing, and march towards the second centenary goal.
Everyone will show the finished products of zongzi online.
Photo courtesy of Seoul Chinese Cultural Center
In his speech, Xu Chongen, head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Jilin Province, fully affirmed the important contribution of overseas Chinese in South Korea in the fight against the epidemic, saying that the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Jilin Province is the eternal "mother family" of the overseas Chinese in South Korea.
I hope that everyone will join hands to make a greater contribution to the overall victory of the fight against the epidemic, to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, to the health and well-being and career development of the overseas Chinese living in Korea, and to the friendship between China and South Korea.
The event carefully prepared four "cultural feasts", "cloud explanation", "cloud viewing", "cloud poetry session", and "cloud experience", introducing the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, enjoying the beauty of Qu Yuan's hometown online, and feeling the vitality of Hubei after the epidemic And vitality.
The poem recitations of overseas Chinese children, the teaching of the process of making rice dumplings by Qiu Hengxing, a cooking class teacher of the Seoul Chinese Cultural Center, the prize-winning knowledge quiz, and H5 mini games are more interesting and interactive.
The embassy also carried out preventive protection publicity on common consular insurance cases recently.
The overseas Chinese have expressed that on the occasion of the centennial of the Chinese Communist Party, this event is very meaningful, allowing them to truly feel the care and warmth from the motherland.
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