On the afternoon of June 21, to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, more than 50 foreign students from the College of International Exchange gathered together to experience the Dragon Boat Festival folk culture.

The experience takes the form of takes the form of a bilingual Chinese and English Dragon Boat Festival tour.Through experiencing interesting folk games, making zongzi, tasting zongzi, making cloisonne painting, etc., students can further understand traditional Chinese culture.

Folk games include fishing zongzi and holding coins with bamboo chopsticks. Participants are required to use chopsticks to pick up the coins, but that is not a problem for international students living and studying in China. Everyone in the game show their skills, the scene of laughter, lively.

Photo 1: Fun folk game -- fishing zongzi

Photo 2: Fun folk game -- holding coins with bamboo chopsticks

In addition to participating in interesting interactive games, the students also followed the professional teachers to make zongzi, to make sachets and taste zongzi. Skilled teachers fill rice, wrap zongzi, tie the line in one go, but also carefully guide the students to make a lovely and exquisite zongzi.

Photo 3:Experience making zongzi

Photo 4:Experience making zongzi

There are also intangible cultural experience sessions on the site, where international students follow non-genetic successors to make cloisonne paintings. Under the guidance of professional teachers, the students piled silk together, stacked silk, wire, wire twisting, after a while, a beautiful piece of work was completed, the students have lamented the production of cloisonne painting exquisite.

Photo 5: Experience making cloisonne painting

The traditional Chinese culture has a long history and is extensive and profound. This Dragon Boat Festival theme activity is one of the series of national education activities of our college, so that students can further perceive the Dragon Boat Festival, taste the Dragon Boat Festival, not only enhance everyone's understanding of the Dragon Boat Festival, but also effectively enhance everyone's sense of interaction and participation, and deepen the understanding of traditional Chinese festivals.

Photo 6: Handmade sachet

Figure 7: Site layout