The weather of Zha n jiang

 

changes in a way that you will never imagine. You may have winter and summer in a day

With the bright sunshine,

all foreign students at LNU are going out to

pick red orange at Lianjiang and watch gongs and drums performance at Anpu

Here is the story

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Pick and taste juicy red orange at orchard

 

 

At 14:00 p.m., November 21, led by Xiao Jianchun, Deputy Director of International Exchange & Cooperation Office, Xiao’s colleagues and all foreign students from 11 countries including Vietnam, the UK, South Korea, Rwanda, Yemen, Cote d'Ivoire and Nepal went to Lianjiang Red Orange Orchard for LNU Foreign Students Outdoor Development Activity. “It is so hot today, and I feel as if I were in summer already”, said Kim Jeong-Yoo, a student from South Korea, “the red orange is sweet and juicy. We have the fruit in South Korea, but it is called tangerine there.”

 

 

 

Multicultural performance after dinner

 After eating the juicy and sweet red oranges, the foreign students came to Anpu Ancient town. After dinner, the foreign students spent the short break with characteristics singing and dancing of their countries. Especially, Maria and Matilde from Equatorial Guinea, Divin and Antiha from Rwanda, and Farouq from Uganda sang and dance with great passion and asked their fellow students to play with them.

Even the shy Kim Jeong-Yoo sang a South Korean song. The festively singing and dancing fostered student-student and teacher-student relations.  

 

 

 

 

 

 Watching gongs and drums performance

After the short break, the foreign students came to Anpu Park to watch the gongs and drums performance by local kids. The Anpu Children’s Gongs and Drums Troupe delivered brilliant performances by switch from small drums, big drums and then to the mixture of percussion instruments. After 6 programs, the kids presented the grand peak Anpu Gongs and Drums. At the 2018 China New Year Gala

Special for Kids, the only gala for kids hosted by China Education Television, Aunpu Gongs and Drums was performed by the children’s troupe for the audience nationwide. Aunpu Gongs and Drums is delivered by combining drums, gongs and cymbals and featuring unique style, pounding drum beats and gorgeous atmosphere, and it is considered to be gongs and drums that can bring good luck and happiness to

viewers. Anpu’s gongs and drums have over 500-years history, and they are mainly played in the form of playing pure percussion. Today, the ancient art has been rated as one of intangible cultural heritages of Zhenjiang, and it has been more and more popular with the public.

 

After the performance, the foreign students played the gongs and drums with the help of kids. “This is a kind of cultural link. In Rwanda, we have similar performing arts, and I like to see how the young boys and girls play the instruments”, said Divin.