The Spring Festival is approaching, and the taste of the New Year is getting stronger. Affected by the epidemic, many international friends have actively responded to the call of the "Local New Year" policy and chosen to stay in Switzerland for a "Chinese Year". Recently, the Publicity Department of Ruian Municipal Party Committee, together with Ruian Rong Media Center and Ruian Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and other units, held the theme activity of "I have a big Year in China", inviting Italian sinologist Tang Yun, Canadian Ruian enterprise executive Ben and other international friends to gather together, listen to drums, write Spring Festival, cut window flowers, say folk customs, taste food, experience the happy and peaceful atmosphere of the Spring Festival, show ruian's excellent traditional culture to the world, and pass on the happy new year.
In the antique courtyard, international friends wore clothes and scarves with "Chinese red" elements, and seriously experienced the traditional customs of Ryan New Year, which was lively and festive. At the scene, Ryan calligraphers splashed ink and wrote the spring league and the word "Fu" on a piece of red paper, and the Italian sinologist Tang Yun carefully watched it from the side and praised it from time to time.
The reporter learned that this year is the third Spring Festival that Tang Yun spent in Ruian. "The New Year at Ryan is very lively and very humane. There are people who write about the Spring Festival, listen to drum lyrics, and of course there are food, and they go out to see friends and relatives, etc., so I am willing to stay here. Italian sinologist Tang Yun said.
At the wooden table and chairs in the hall, Ben from Canada is taking his two lovely daughters and learning the art of paper-cutting with the paper-cutting master. After a while, the paper cuts in the shape of tigers were completed, and the teacher also framed the children's paper cuts and gave them as New Year's gifts, making the two little girls very happy. Ben is Ryan's son-in-law, he and his wife have 3 lovely children, and he has chosen to stay in Ryan for the Spring Festival for many years. "The family is here, we are all gathered here for the New Year. I am very happy to be able to come with my children to learn about traditional Chinese culture. Canadian Ryan Corporate executive Ben said.
In addition to paper cutting and pasting Spring Festival, it is indispensable to eat Chinese New Year's Eve rice in the New Year. At Ryan, every dish of the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is very exquisite. On the table, 10 red tall bowls are decorated with different dishes, each with a different meaning. The cooking cake represents the rising of the year, which means that life is steaming upwards; the local chicken means that the new year is auspicious and everything is smooth; the hairy crab is full of crabs, which means "perfect and perfect"... While guessing the meaning of the dish, everyone chatted and shared the New Year customs of their hometowns.
Nowadays, more and more international friends like to spend the Chinese New Year, and they love Chinese traditional culture more and more, and are willing to contribute to the "going out" of Chinese traditional culture, and Tang Yun is one of them. Tang Yun came to China alone in 1987, traveled all over China, published a number of books, and was known as the contemporary female "Marco Polo". In 2020, Tang Yun, who came to work at Ryan, was deeply attracted by Ryan's traditional culture and began to study in depth. This year, Tang Yun's "Discovering the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ryan" was officially published in Italy. She wrote books in more than 100,000 Italians to tell her hometown about the beauty of Ruian's intangible cultural heritage, hoping to promote the further expansion of Sino-Italian cultural tourism through this "people-to-people diplomacy" approach.
Tang Yun, an Italian sinologist, said: "Wenzhou and my city Turin, Italy, have also been sister cities since last year, and this year 2022 is the year of cultural tourism in Italy and China, and there will be many activities, including books about Wenzhou and Ruian that I have published. I hope that the epidemic will end soon, and our two countries and two cities can recover and develop our friendly exchanges, which is my (New Year's) wish. ”
Content Source: Ruian Rong Media Center (NewBerry Hui Positive Energy Manuscript Pool)