Source: Southern Network
Winners announced! GDToday Chinese and foreign fans are basking in the Happy Year of Cantonese flavor
In order to welcome the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, GDToday launched the "I spent the New Year in Guangdong" prize collection activity some time ago, and has received many readers' submissions. They recorded their spring festival holidays through videos and pictures, and shared their exclusive memories and beautiful moments in the Guangdong New Year. The list of winners is attached at the end of the article, let's take a look at you?
Rafael, who now lives in Shenzhen and has lived in China for seven years, says he has fallen in love with traditional Chinese culture. During the Spring Festival, he and his family spent a wonderful time in Heyuan for the New Year, pasting couplets, sticking window flowers, and eating reunion dinners together.
(Video clip from Rafael's Spring Festival Vlog)
Syam and Qaisar are international students studying at Shenzhen University. They all participated in the Spring Festival celebrations held by Shenzhen University for Chinese and foreign students, making lanterns, dumplings, writing couplets, etc., and felt the strong festive atmosphere.
Meryl and Gordon Dunwall are a couple from South Africa. This year, they came to Panyu Shawan Ancient Town in Guangzhou to celebrate the Spring Festival with their Chinese friends May's family. The couple received warm hospitality, and they ate a reunion dinner with everyone, pasted New Year paintings, and decorated the New Year flowers. They said they were very welcome even though May's family couldn't communicate with them in English, which made them feel very welcome and touched.
Vakulishyna Victoria from Ukraine is a teacher at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. During the Spring Festival holiday, she made dumplings with her family and friends, experienced tea art, and learned a funny New Year's gesture dance.
Xie Lixia recorded the unique New Year in Shunde, Foshan with a short video, and said that Guangdong is full of new year flavor, human touch is also enough, and the atmosphere of staying in Guangdong for the New Year is very good.
Xie Zhenwei took a picture of the happy time of his family reunion for the New Year, and wished everyone a happy year, every year is victorious, 2022 is safe and joyful, and everything is victorious.
Chopstick Road is Foshan's famous "Waving Spring Street", which is the exclusive memory of Foshan neighborhoods for the New Year. Here, Yu Zhanwen uses a short video to record the scene of people waving spring. The gold lacquer is old and inky, and the horizontal skimming dots paint the strongest flavor of Foshan.
May clocked in the "Children's Heart Children's Fun to Welcome the Winter Olympics - Guangzhou Children's Park Helps the Beijing Winter Olympics Children's Painting Exhibition", full of childlike paintings, children's expectations and blessings for the Beijing Winter Olympics left a deep impression on her.
(May video screenshot)
The Tamas Szabo family spent a fulfilling Spring Festival holiday in Guangzhou. They went to Zengcheng to soak in hot springs, to Liantang Village to pick fresh vegetables and fruits, and romantically followed the footsteps of Tamas Szabo's wife in Guangzhou as a child, and retraced her growth path.
(Video screenshot of Tamas Szabo)
The Neil Stevens family lives in Zhuhai. Chinese New Year's Eve night, they "beat the side stove" together at home, and specially customized a New Year cake to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Michelle Kim is a person in Guangdong for the New Year this year. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, she chose to enjoy a hearty breakfast at the hotel, and the hotel staff also sent her the warmest Chinese New Year wishes.
Before the Chinese New Year's Eve, the "Celebrating the Chinese New Year and Welcoming the Winter Olympics" themed drone formation flight show was held in Haixinsha, Guangzhou, and Giulia Ravasi enjoyed the "air greeting" of the New Year on the 107th floor of Zhujiang New Town.
Fu Lingyan used a group of photos to record the happy and peaceful New Year atmosphere of Yuyin Mountain House during the Spring Festival, and tourists participated in the Year of the Tiger, the God of Wealth, the Flower Viewing Exhibition, etc., to spend a happy and detailed Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival holiday, Sarah and friends played in Chaozhou and Shenzhen, visiting a series of quaint special attractions such as Guangji Bridge and Archway Street.
Around the Spring Festival, Xu Jianmei and his family and friends tasted morning tea, wrote about spring, watched Fuhu, and went out together to enjoy the spring light.
Nina specially went to the South China Botanical Garden to visit the peony flower exhibition, more than 60 varieties of more than 8,000 Luoyang peonies gathered in the flower city, making people linger. In addition, she decorated her room with window flowers, and also received a "Li Yes" from her family and colleagues.
New Year flowers, oranges, lanterns... Fung decorated his home with joy and spent a "Cantonese New Year".
Qiu Xiantian, a Hakka from Meizhou, Guangdong Province, traveled to Sabah, Malaysia, two years ago during the summer vacation and accidentally found that most of the local Chinese overseas Chinese spoke the same Hakka dialect as him. The culture of the third and fourth generations of overseas Chinese was "cutting through the roots" and deeply touched him. Returning to his hometown for the Chinese New Year this year, he used Mandarin, English and Hakka to express the voice of thousands of overseas Chinese.
In addition, readers such as Natalie, AnthonyPan, and Lynn also contributed to us to share their unforgettable moments during the Chinese New Year in Guangdong. Thank you again to all the participants, and special thanks to our prize sponsors, including Mingchuang Premium, Guangdong Hengxing Group Co., Ltd., Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic Products and The South Vietnamese King Museum.
Please contact us as soon as possible through the participating channel (email: [email protected]), or add GDToday's WeChat message consultation (ID: Fera@GDToday), we will send the prize within 10 working days after receiving the contact information. Please continue to pay attention to the GDToday WeChat public account (ID: Newsguangdong), we will continue to launch more exciting activities, waiting for you to participate!
List of winners
Minchuang Premium Limited Edition "Hoo" New Year Gift Box (2 pieces)
Rafael
VakulishynaVictoria
Guangdong Hengxing Group Co., Ltd. Lion Head New Year Gift Box (8 pieces)
MerylDingwall
SyamM.S. (Mountain Rock)
QaisarHayat
Yu Zhanwen
Xie Zhenwei
Shereich
TamasSzabo
Natalie
Zhanjiang Guolian aquatic green pepper grilled fish (8 parts)
Sarah
Littlepapachina fake.ind
Administer and
Fu Lingyan
Xu Jianmei
AnthonyPan
NeilStevens
Qiu Xiantian
South VietnamEse King Tiger Festival Yangcheng Pass (5 servings)
GIULIARAVASI
MichelleKim
BeatriceVigano
Lynn
MayvelynParan
Readers and friends who did not win the above prizes do not have to be disappointed, in order to thank everyone for their enthusiastic submissions, we have added some small gifts for the following fans: Vivian, Alex, Paint ghost, Li Yan, Edward, Fung, Nina, Xiaoxiao, Miss Ye, May, Icy, Coyoyi.
For more gifts, please follow our next activities!
Reporter: Huang Xinying
Editor: Zhang Ying Liu Lingzhi