In the Spring Festival of 2022, many Students from Shanghai Colleges and Universities chose to stay in school for the New Year. In order to let the students live a warm, peaceful and happy year, the major campuses have launched delicious "Tiger Tiger Shengwei" Chinese New Year packages in the canteen, and some invite students to make dumplings and make snacks together. Many colleges and universities have also carefully prepared Spring Festival gift packages, successively launched rich folk experiences, cultural exhibitions and lectures, etc., so that students can feel caring during the winter vacation. Students staying in school taste the New Year's taste, receive New Year goods, and appreciate the New Year customs, and they can feel the increasingly strong New Year's flavor without leaving the school.
Yesterday was the traditional festival "Little Year", And Chen Jie, president of Tongji University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and more than 90 students who stayed at the university celebrated the New Year and shared dinner. The menu has been set early, river shrimp, pine nut rich fish, black pepper beef grains, asparagus fried chicken fir mushrooms, golden silk lamb chops, Shimizu steak, local chicken braised flower rolls, salted egg yolk mushrooms, are all red-hot New Year dishes.
In order to welcome the "small Chinese New Year's Eve", the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology has carefully prepared a combination of "packages". The entrance of Sinan Restaurant is filled with special snacks from all over the world, such as sticky cakes from the north and rice dumplings from the south, so that students can participate in games and try to eat, appreciate the characteristic New Year culture, and taste the taste of hometown in traditional festivals. In the special New Year goods display tent at the entrance of the restaurant, students can learn about the customs of traditional Chinese festival Chinese New Year's Eve and participate in the quiz, and the winners can receive their own special "New Year goods", including Spring Festival, window flowers, lucky characters, paper cuts, Chinese knots, etc.
Teachers and students of the School of Shipbuilding at Shanghai Jiao Tong University greeted the upcoming New Year with a dumpling feast prepared by themselves. Beef filling, pork cabbage filling, vegetarian three fresh filling... Students who can't make dumplings, teachers teach by hand, and senior students enthusiastically teach freshmen the experience of campus life. Plates of steaming dumplings, paired with pizza, onion rings, hot dog rolls, grilled wings, sea and land platters and other delicious snacks, are full of happiness.
The canteen of Donghua University is newly decorated, and the big red lanterns hanging high bring the familiar taste of the New Year. "Tiger Tiger Shengwei Dongpo Meat", "Smiling And Smiling, Brine Shrimp", "Mixing with The Same Window, Double Spelling of Seasonal Vegetables"... Delicious dishes with festive names, with a strong flavor of the year. The relevant person in charge of the school said: "In order to avoid gathering, dishes are distributed in the form of set menus, and the New Year also needs to 'keep epidemic prevention in mind'. ”
During the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival, "Chinese wind" such as New Year folklore and national intangible cultural heritage blows across the campus, allowing college students to renew traditional folk art from the perspective of youth.
What does the "tiger" in traditional Chinese culture mean? What other idioms are associated with "tiger"? On the day of the New Year, the Baoshan Campus of Shanghai University held a Spring Festival cultural lecture on "Speaking of the Tiger in the Year of the Tiger", so that students who stayed in the school could understand tiger cultural totems such as tiger charms, tiger head hats, tiger head shoes, etc., and also experience paper-cutting on the spot and appreciate various characteristic folk items.
The School of International Cultural Exchange of Shanghai Chinese University gave "National Tide" New Year gifts to the students who stayed at the school, such as hand-built puzzles of classical Chinese architecture and mythological figures, which not only allowed students to experience the fun of hand-assembling during the winter vacation, but also could be used to decorate the dormitories.
In the student community of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, the National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Suzhou Taohuawu Woodblock New Year's Eve Exhibition integrates traditional folk art into contemporary life with novel New Year painting cultural creation. This exhibition is jointly curated by students, and the integration of young people's creativity, youthful perspective and traditional artworks makes the exhibition more interactive and interesting, and allows students to feel the aesthetic taste of Jiangnan culture.
Author: Chu Shuting
Editor: Wu Jinjiao
Editor-in-Charge: Jiang Peng
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