About 100 participants gathered Festival of Chinese culture in Yanka Kupla State University of Grodno

Students of Yanka Kupla State University of Grodno, schoolchildren and volunteers from Minsk, attended the event.

The festival of Chinese culture lasted for two days. As part of the festival, students with linguistic degree held a quiz about the history and culture of China, prepared a presentation about finger-painting and traditional trades, held a competition to decode Chinese phraseological units and held a phonetic battle. The melodious Chinese songs and recited poems, including Pushkin's poem "I loved You" translated into Chinese, were featuring on the festival.

Numerous master classes in Chinese calligraphy and artistic paper cutting were also included in the program of the festival. Everyone was able to take part in the ceremony of Chinese tea and tasting Chinese cuisine, which was prepared by volunteers and students. The most active students in the events of the holiday were the freshmen and sophomores of the specialty "Linguistic support of intercultural communications", who study Chinese as the first foreign language. Volunteers from Minsk actively helped them to prepare a various and interesting program of the festival. They presented several concert performances, including an artistic reading of Chinese poetry, a performance of modern Chinese songs and a piece of music on a Chinese flute.

Everyone interested in Chinese culture could take part in the festival. There were students of different faculties of Kupala University, as well as students and authorities of secondary school No. 38 of Grodno, on the basis of which a branch of the Department of translation and intercultural communication of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was established. The purpose of the festival of Chinese culture, which was held on the initiative of the academic and methodical cabinet “Cabinet of Confucius” and the Department of translation and intercultural communication of the faculty of history, communication and tourism, is to push the motivation of students and schoolchildren to study Chinese language and culture, to push the development of their communicative, intercultural and professional competencies.