Chinanews.com, January 7th. The Lunar New Year of the Year of the Rabbit is approaching, and a series of activities to welcome the Chinese New Year are being staged one after another by overseas Chinese around the world.
Everyone bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in a joyful and peaceful atmosphere, and also showed the charm of Chinese culture to the world.
According to Japan's Overseas Chinese News, the 17th Nagoya Chinese New Year Festival will be held from January 6th to 9th.
There are 25 gourmet food booths, and experiential activities such as making palace lanterns are also arranged.
Overseas Chinese artists in Japan, art groups singing and dancing lovers, as well as Japanese singers and dance art performers performed on stage.
The Nagoya Chinese New Year Festival began in 2007. It is a large-scale celebration jointly organized by overseas Chinese in central Japan and the Chinese Consulate General in Nagoya.
The event not only comforted the homesickness of overseas travelers, but also allowed the Japanese people to experience Chinese culture at close range, deepening mutual understanding and emotions.
On January 7th, the North German Spring Festival Gala will be held in the Yu Garden in Hamburg, Germany. This year’s party will gather nearly a hundred professional actors and amateur artists from the North German region. They will bring songs and dances, Hanfu shows, folk art, and poetry Recitation, children's singing and dancing, musical instrument performance and other wonderful performances.
According to the news from the Chinese Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the center will hold the "Entering the Center to Celebrate the Chinese New Year" event on January 14.
On the same day, there will be a special concert of the Jade Rabbit to welcome the Spring Festival, a lecture on traditional customs of the New Year, a Chaozhou puppet show of "Jinyulouchun", "City Painting of Friends of Beautiful China" and "Dialogue between Jiangsu and the World" Chinese and Malaysian youth painting exhibitions, etc. The public participated in writing Spring Festival couplets, painting blessings, paper-cutting, rubbings of New Year pictures, making rattle drums and other intangible cultural heritage hand-made experiences, allowing everyone to feel the festive and auspicious New Year atmosphere and strong New Year flavor in the fragrance of ink, drama, music and food.
The Federation of Canadian Chinese Associations will hold the first Chinese Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair in Greater Vancouver on New Year's Eve. At that time, it will present a variety of "Chinese style" cultural programs and a rich display of traditional Chinese culture.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many overseas Chinese organizations such as the Vancouver Chinese Association and other ethnic groups will hold a Spring Festival celebration in Chinatown.
Among them, the main event - the Chinatown Spring Festival Parade is already one of the representative multicultural festivals in Vancouver.
The overseas Chinese community in Milan, Italy will hold a "Celebrate the New Year, Dragon and Lion Dance" Gala in Chinatown on January 22. The event will also bring dances, zithers, martial arts and other cultural programs. Overseas Chinese will feel the rich Chinese style. The joy of the new year.
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