April 20 is the "Grain Rain" in the twenty-four solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar, and it is also the 13th United Nations Chinese Language Day.

In Moscow, the capital of Russia, a unique Chinese Day event was held here.

　　At the event, Russian meritorious art activist Irina Zakharova met with everyone with her new book "The Magic of Chinese Paper-cutting".

Irina Zakharova is a senior researcher at the Department of Aesthetic Education for Children and Adolescents of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, an associate doctor of art theory, and a collector and connoisseur of Chinese folk toys.

　　Irina Zakharova has worked and lived in Beijing for a long time and loves Chinese culture and art.

She has published many books about Chinese culture, such as "Happiness is Long", which tells the story of the Chinese zodiac, and the fairy tale "The Magic of Beijing" which tells about the magical oriental cultural journey of the Russian little girl Maruxia in Beijing. Brigade, etc.

This time, her new work is "The Magic of Chinese Paper-cutting", a book dedicated to introducing the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art.

　　Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui expressed his heartfelt congratulations to Ms. Zakharova on the publication of her new book when delivering a speech via video.

He said that Chinese is one of the most widely used languages ​​in the world and one of the six working languages ​​of the United Nations.

It is of great significance for China and Russia to learn and spread each other's languages ​​in order to promote the sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral relations and deepen the friendship between the two peoples.

　　Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova believes that culture is the foundation and spiritual blood of a nation. Culture is passed down from generation to generation, and at the same time it gives a nation more vigorous vitality.

Only a nation that promotes and inherits friendship, love, mutual respect, and solidarity and mutual assistance as traditional virtues can endure for a long time, and this is exactly the case with the Chinese nation.

(Reporter Tian Bing produced Liu Peng)

Responsible editor: [Yu Xiao]