Japanese friends used brushes to write down Chinese characters such as "Friend" and "Jing", "Ji" and "Kai" on red paper, and made New Year's wishes. Photo by Liu Lixin
Nanchang, January 15 (Li Yunhan, Liu Lixin) "My 2021 Chinese character is 'Jie', which means 'fast' and 'successful', which represents my full and smooth life in China last year. Takaki Suzuki from Japan wrote his 2021 Kanji in Nanchang, Jiangxi on the 15th.
Writing the annual Chinese characters, flower viewing ceremony, tea tasting ceremony... "He 50 years, dragons and tigers leaping - celebrating the New Year with the Japanese in Changchang" activity was held in Nanchang, Jiangxi on the 15th. More than 20 Japanese friends gathered at the Takamatsu Sino-Japanese Friendship Association in Nanchang to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan and celebrate the 2022 New Year. The event was sponsored by the Nanchang People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Jiangxi Provincial Japanese Association.
More than 20 Japanese friends gathered at the Takamatsu Sino-Japanese Friendship Association in Nanchang to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan and celebrate the 2022 New Year. Photo by Liu Lixin
The event was presented in the form of a tea party, with 2021 Annual Chinese Characters, the Story of "I" and Nanchang, Tea Art and Flower Road Performance, and The Song Liu Duo Conference. In the story section of 2021 Chinese characters, "I" and Nanchang, Japanese friends and Japanese lovers held up their brushes, wrote Chinese characters that condensed their feelings for a year, and actively spoke to tell the story of their 2021 and nanchang friendship.
The reporter of China News Network saw at the scene of the event that Japanese friends used brushes to write Chinese characters such as "friend" and "jing", "ji" and "kai" on the red paper, and made New Year's wishes, and then watched the tea art and the flower road together, exchanged cultures between the two countries, and celebrated the New Year together.
Japanese friends used brushes to write down Chinese characters such as "Friend" and "Jing", "Ji" and "Kai" on red paper, and made New Year's wishes. Photo by Liu Lixin
"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and the 32nd anniversary of the friendship between Nanchang and Takamatsu of Japan, and we have all stood at a new starting point." Shen Jiming, a fourth-level researcher at the Foreign Affairs Office of the Nanchang Municipal People's Government, said that he will try new forms to organize students from the two cities to conduct online exchange activities, and at the same time actively resume the Japanese teacher dispatch project suspended due to the epidemic, and the exchanges between the two cities will be more active in 2022.
Hide hidesa Kawajima, president of the Jiangxi Provincial Japanese Association, said that Sino-Japanese friendship is a friendly relationship, and the Japanese and Chinese are friends. In the 50 years since the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, China has developed rapidly, and many Japanese people are now working in China, and the foundation of Sino-Japanese friendship is in the non-governmental sector. It is hoped that the people of the two countries can strengthen exchanges and cooperation, promote people-to-people ties, and build Sino-Japanese relations in the new era. (End)