“Happy Chinese new year, happy Chinese new year...” , with Chinese cheerful music, the local time of February 16, Evergreen Park school was holding the  Chinese New Year Celebration with more than 800 students and teachers attending. The event was organized by Wang Jingli, a Chinese teacher volunteer of Confucius Institute in New Brunswick (CINB), and collaborating with school teachers and students. Mrs. Teng Jing, the foreign director of CINB, Chinese families and students families were invited to attend this event.

The show opened with playing a cheerful new year song and many students photos which were taken at Chinese art classes and culture classes as screen background, many smiling faces represented that they enjoyed Chinese class very much. 

Chinese new year celebration mainly included the dragon dance performance, the fabulous dragon was created by Wang Jingli, the school art teachers, and Chinese dragon club students who took 22 days to make it. After that, under the leading of G1 students, all the teachers and students danced together.

Chinese club students had a Chinese new year presentation to show out the customs and characteristics of Chinese new year to audience and performed a fan dance “Chun Xiao”. G5 students performed a Chinese poetry reciting “Climbing Guanque Building”, “A Tranquil Night” and “The Willow”, accompanied by melodious classical music slowly outflow, Chinese landscape pictures, the students clear pronunciation brought the audience into the unique artistic conception. Then, music teachers and two students brought the solo musical instrument play, Chinese folk song “Jasmine flower”, Canadian folk song “Red river valley” and “Croatian rhapsody”. The melodies were beautiful, the rhythms were distinct, each had its own characteristics, the teachers and students were applauding with music beat.

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