Orenburg state university

Gold Weeks in OSU. Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year was celebrated in OSU during 15 days.

Students of OSU, schools, colleges and other universities have participated in this event. At these days the center conducted lessons on the finest decorative and applied arts tsyanchzhi (剪纸). All participants had an opportunity to cut out of paper a symbol of the coming year — a cock — with the help of special sharp scissors. Workshops on Chinese painting gokhua (国画) were also interesting — guests learned to draw a cherry plum meykhua (梅花).

Within the framework of Chuntsze (春节) celebrating a competitive exhibition devoted to works in a style of Chinese art was organized. The evening was finished by a quiz where three teams were competing in knowing language and culture of China, in hieroglyphs drawing following the proposed pictures, and also in use skills of chopsticks — participants were using them for putting beans from one container to another. Some guests of this evening sang New Year’s songs and declaimed poems in Chinese language. The youngest participants were 5 and 6 years old.