Chinese Lantern Festival at the Faculty of History

The event attracted a lot of attention of people and local media organizations, who had interviews with the participants and provided the informational support.

At the beginning of the celebration head of the International Affairs Department A.Yu. Rezinkin addressed the audience with the welcoming speech. He said that ASU had started cooperating with Chinese universities more recently and that such events are a brilliant way of learning about the culture of Chinese people.

The Lantern Festival was preceded by certificates delivery ceremony. The certificates were given to students, who were actively engaged in promotion of Chinese language and culture and in Vostok (The Orient) club activities.

The event itself started with the performance by oriental studies students, who showed the audience a lively contemporary dance. The performance warmed up the audience and boosted their mood.

Then the audience’s mind was fired by the sportsmen of Barnaul Branch of Beijing School of Shaolin Kung Fu: they demonstrated traditional art of face changing (bian lian) and the most fascinating martial art techniques. Faculty of History students have become friends with Beijing School sportsmen a long time ago, as it has not been their first participation in ASU events.

The second year students prepared the Chinese traditional costumes show. Besides Hanfu, Changshan and Ruqun, they demonstrated the costume of the Yao nationality, which lives in the south of China. The most memorable were performances by Chinese students. They showed the simple, but elegant dance with umbrellas, which unveiled all the gracefulness of Chinese dance culture. The first year students presented the drama sketch and shared their impressions of university life and Chinese learning.

At the end of the event the first year students got the diplomas saying that they are now real orientalists.

To sum up, the event has left the most positive impressions.