Throughout my year of studying Chinese, one new thing that I have experienced is the Chinese New Year Celebration. At this time, people get together and eat a dinner together, light fireworks, and usually, elders give the children red envelopes that have money inside.
Trinity celebrated this event by getting different Asian groups on campus together and having one New Year celebration together. At this event, which was held in the Fiesta Room, there were performances by the Vietnamese club, Chinese I students, Filipino club, along with others. Food was provided as well as small other fun Chinese souvenirs.
For this event, I, along with three other Chinese 1 students got together and planned out a performance to the traditional Chinese New Year song, "Gong Xi"-- this means congratulations in Chinese (in ancient history, Chinese people congratulated each other for surviving another year). We organized about 25 students into a choreographed dance and then me, along with one of the other leaders, made a cardboard Ox in which we danced under like traditional New Years performances.
Through this experience I gained a first-hand experience with the Chinese culture and was able to participate in a way that wouldn't have been possible unless I was in Chinese at Trinity University. Included in this blog is a picture of a traditional Chinese New Year celebration along with a link to a youtube video of the traditional "Gong Xi" song.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7laBfy89qK8&feature=related
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