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(New Year News) Malaysian Miniature Sculpture Exhibition Says The Past of the Spring Festival Chinese Remember the Traditional "New Year's Taste"
China News Service Kuala Lumpur February 10 Title: Malaysian Miniature Sculpture Exhibition Says The Past of the Spring Festival Chinese Remember the Traditional "New Year's Taste"
China News Service reporter Chen Yue
"This is when we were young, every Spring Festival, every spring festival, everyone roasted 'kuih kapit' together. This sweet baked pancake is the taste of the Spring Festival. Huang Xiujuan, who is visiting the "Lunar New Year Handmade Miniature Sculpture Art Special Exhibition" at the Chinese Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, excitedly told reporters.
On February 8th, the Chinese Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the "Lunar New Year • All Handmade Miniature Sculpture Art Special Exhibition" showed the miniature sculpture of the high-pile lion dance scene with Chinese characteristics in Malaysia. China News Service reporter Chen Yue photographed
"Lunar New Year Handmade Miniature Sculpture Art Special Exhibition" is an exhibition organized by the Chinese Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with the World Cultural Organisation of Malaysia (WCO) during the Spring Festival, recreating the unique "New Year's Taste" of Malaysia in the early years with 12 sets of miniature models. This is also an important part of this year's "Happy Spring Festival" event in Malaysia. On February 8th, the Chinese Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, showed the miniature sculpture of the Chinese Chinese In Malaysia New Year Lion Dance at the "Lunar New Year Handmade Miniature Sculpture Art Special Exhibition". China News Service reporter Chen Yue photographed
Most of these miniature sculptures have been created by Malaysian artists over the years, depicting the rich scenes of the Chinese society in Malaysia for the Lunar New Year in the past, and recording "the rich memories of the Malaysian Chinese for the past time". What attracts Huang Xiujuan's attention is the largest group of miniature sculptures, showing the panoramic view of the Chinese New Year in the early years of Malaysia's Chinese New Village with dozens of lifelike characters and diverse scenes. In the miniature carving, it not only shows the Customs of The Chinese New Year in Malaysia, such as roasting "Koji Gabi", watching "big dramas", and paying homage to the gods with a tall incense stick, but also depicts the unique scenery of chinese new villages, such as hanging a county looking plaque on the gate of a HOS house and a traditional zhaobi in Chinese architecture at the entrance of the village.
Huang Xiujuan told reporters that although you can still eat "Kokabi" now, "it is all baked with an electric stove", unlike in the past, when everyone used to bake it with a charcoal stove. "What's more, at that time, it was all the neighbors who got together to bake by themselves, and everyone laughed while baking, which was particularly lively!"
On February 8, the public visited the "Lunar New Year Handmade Miniature Sculpture Art Special Exhibition" at the Chinese Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur. China News Service reporter Chen Yue photographed
For Huang Xiujuan, who is "post-60s", the most exciting thing in the memory of the Spring Festival in her childhood is "receiving red envelopes". She pointed to the vendors who came to sell noodles riding "bicycles (Malaysian Chinese call bicycles)" in the micro-carved group portraits, saying that every Spring Festival, the new village is full of these small snacks that are loved by children, and "after receiving the red envelope, there will be money to relieve hunger"!
Moreover, the Red Envelope is to visit relatives and friends, including all ethnic groups in Malaysia, "whether it is Malay ethnicity or Indian ethnicity, they all greet each other with us." Huang Xiujuan said that this atmosphere of harmonious coexistence between diverse ethnic groups and celebrating the festival is a characteristic of Malaysia's Spring Festival and is "particularly worth cherishing."
Compared with Huang Xiujuan, her daughter, Huang Peipei, who grew up in Kuala Lumpur, is somewhat unfamiliar with such a "New Year's taste". Huang Peipei admitted that with the process of urbanization, now that everyone lives in an apartment, it is difficult to reproduce the scene of the mother's memory of the neighbors celebrating the New Year. New Year's fun such as setting off fireworks is difficult to replicate in big cities. Some of these miniature sculpture scenes, such as dragon and lion dances, are not unfamiliar to the younger generation of Malaysian Chinese, but customs such as gathering together in front of the Xincun opera stage to watch plays are", for Huang Peipei, "only seen in TV dramas".
On February 8th, at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Huang Xiujuan (first from left), who came to visit the "Lunar New Year And Handmade Miniature Sculpture Art Special Exhibition", pointed out her daughter Huang Peipei's "New Year Memories" of micro-carving. China News Service reporter Chen Yue photographed
As a "fan" of the Chinese cultural center, Huang Xiujuan pulled her daughter as soon as she saw the exhibition information, hoping to let her know the traditional customs of the Early Malaysian Chinese New Year. She told reporters that now that relatives and friends at home get together for the New Year, she must set rules, everyone must eat together at the table, "can not hold their own meals to hide in front of the computer, TV"; at the table is not allowed to slide the mobile phone. In Huang Xiujuan's view, for the Chinese, the "New Year's flavor" of the New Year is "reunion".
"This is a Chinese cultural tradition, and it must be passed down from generation to generation."
Zhang Jiexin, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, said that showing and inheriting the Chinese New Year traditions in Malaysia and letting young people understand the memories of the older generation of "New Year's Taste" is an important purpose of the center to hold this exhibition. He introduced that although it is still during the epidemic period, the exhibition needs to be booked in advance and the time limit is limited, but the Enthusiasm of malaysians to visit the exhibition is very high, especially during the holiday period.
"In addition to the Chinese, there are also many people from all ethnic groups in Malaysia who come to visit." Zhang Jiexin told reporters that the cultural center has received a family of Mr. Indian and Chinese wives, who specially brought children to understand the Chinese New Year culture. In Zhang Jiexin's view, the traditional values of reunion and harmony represented by the Spring Festival are becoming increasingly prominent, and have become a festival celebrated by the whole society in Malaysia. (End)