China News Service, September 22. According to Argentine Huaren.com, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals that Chinese people pay attention to.
Reunion is the main theme of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In Argentina, every Mid-Autumn Festival is surrounded by deep homesickness among overseas Chinese living in Argentina.
It is difficult for the Chinese living in Afghanistan to reunite with their families on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, and spend the night of autumn with their family members in a foreign country thousands of miles away.
Yuan Jianping, director of the Asian Strategic Affairs Coordination Department of Burundi, said that September is the spring of the southern hemisphere.
Spring flowers blooming to admire the moon is the biggest feature of the Argentine Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinatown in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, was refurbished by the Chinatown Management Committee. Chinese elements such as red lanterns and couplets made Argentina full of Chinese festivals.
He Wenqiang, chairman of the Al-China Investment and Trade Promotion Association, pointed out that in recent years, with the close trade between China and Algeria, the influence of Chinese-funded companies and overseas Chinese in local society has expanded.
More and more Argentines know when and when the Chinese celebrate which festivals, and when there will be promotions and festivals in the "China Town".
Now the number of foreigners visiting the "Chinatown" has soared.
Despite the high price of mooncakes this year, many Argentines are willing to taste the desserts made by Chinese in Argentine for the Mid-Autumn Festival in the spring.
According to Wang Qingcang, director of the Chinatown Management Committee, Chinatown in Argentina was born in the 1980s.
Today, Chinatown’s commercial and gastronomic activities, as well as the annual Mid-Autumn Festival and the annual Chinese New Year celebrations are becoming more and more well-known in Argentina and Latin America.
In addition to a large number of Chinese restaurants, supermarkets and other businesses, there are also cultural institutions with Chinese cultural characteristics such as Chinese schools.
(Lisa)