The first Friday at the beginning of the new semester is our traditional Chinese festival ‘Lantern Festival’.
We set up amazing activities, guessing game, tasting tangyuan, to express our festival culture to our students.
All students dressed up the costumes with bright happy colors to come to school on that day. We also decorated our school with lots of colourful lanterns outside of the classroom, within lots of riddles in those. Students are really motivated when they got into the school by seeing the bright lanterns at the south welcome gate. We can feel their excited feeling at that moment and that day. Meanwhile we got to know the knowledge, as well as fairy tales about lantern festival. Do you know the other name of lantern festival? It’s called ‘yuanbao’ means wealth.
The most exciting moment is to guess out the riddles. Look, they sometimes thinking carefully, sometimes discussing considerately. They all tried their efforts to participate not just because the first three students with the most points will be the winner.
Chatted, chatted, happily discussed Yelled, with excited feeling Laughed, proudly guessing outHappiness, fun, spread everywhere, every corner of this school.
Of course, they experienced the fun and happiness within the lantern riddles. They definitely had a further understanding of the festival through their participation.
In the end, we, everyone at WUIS, really want to express our wish to all of you! Wish you have a happy and healthy Lantern Festival. As the Chinese poem says, ‘Moon rises, at night of Lantern Festival, Chang’e dances, to see the shadow, The terrific taste of yuanxiao, combined with the round moon, singing a beautiful scenery, reunion of friends and relatives, sharing happy mutual exhort’.
