Chinese Culture Festival at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno gathered about 100 participants

The event was attended by students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, local schoolchildren and volunteers from Minsk.

Chinese Culture Festival lasted for two days. During the festival, language students conducted a quiz on Chinese history and culture, prepared a presentation on Chinese painting and traditional crafts, held a phraseology decoding contest and a phonetic battle. The festival featured melodic Chinese songs and recited poems, including the poem “I Loved You” by Alexander Pushkin translated into Chinese.

The holiday program also included numerous master classes on Chinese calligraphy and papercutting. Everyone could take part in the Chinese tea ceremony and tasting dishes of Chinese cuisine, which were prepared by volunteers and students. The most active participants of the event were 1st and 2nd year students of the specialty “Linguistic support for intercultural communications”, who study Chinese as the first foreign language. They were actively helped by volunteers from Minsk to prepare a full and interesting program of the festival. The volunteers presented several concert performances, including Chinese poetry reading, modern Chinese songs and flute music.

Everyone who is interested in Chinese culture could take part in the festival. There were students from different faculties of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, as well as schoolchildren and administration of secondary school No. 38 in Grodno, on the basis of which a branch of the Translation and Intercultural Communication Department of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was created. The purpose of the Chinese Culture Festival, which was held on the initiative of the Curriculum office “Confucius Cabinet” and the Translation and Intercultural Communication Department of the History, Communication and Tourism Faculty, was to help motivate students and schoolchildren to learn Chinese language and culture and develop their communicative, intercultural and professional competence.