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Latvia local time at 10:30 on January 21, 2016, Chinese New Year cultural lectures heldby Confucius Classroom at Rezekne University beganits first lecture atEastern Latvia high school of technologies.
Chinese volunteer teacher Liang Mingxuan first greeted to the students and teachers with "Happy ChineseNew Year" inChinese language, then shebegan to introduce Chinese traditional festival --- Spring Festival. At first,she depicted the phrase of the moon,and introduced the Chinese lunar calendar which has been used since ancient times.She also said that a lot of Chinese traditional festivals are based on the lunar calendar . Then she let the teachers and students guess what the12 cute cartoon animals are, andexplainedthey are12 Chinese zodiac andtheaudiencesthat 2016 is the Year of the Monkey.
When Introducing Spring Festival, she first explaind the origin of Chinese New Year, andthe Chinese people how to celebrate this Festival. When talking about New Year's Eve, she said after the big dinner ,family members will watch the Spring Festival Gala together, she played the classic show "Avalokitesvara(a Buddha with thousands of hands)in 2005 Spring Festival Gala Show,whenthe teachers and studentsknew the performers are deaf people , they all thumbed to praise for it.
At the end of the lecture, Tr.Liang explained a number of Chinese proverbs about spring and told students that Chinese people like spring time because spring symbolizes beauty and hope. Then, she wrote the Chinese character “chun”which means spring and taught the students to do the paper cutting of “chun”.Finally, studentswere holding their "Spring" paper-cuttinghappilyand taking photos, hoping that they would have more opportunities to experience colorful Chinese culture.
