Study Abroad How International Students Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in a Foreign Country

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, how do international students in foreign countries celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? I will give you a brief introduction. ? Fan Longfei Texas A&M University Location: South Texas, USA

"Keywords: hot pot"

Fan Longfei, who lives in Zhengzhou and graduated from Zhejiang University, is now pursuing his doctoral degree at Texas A&M University, and spent a Mid-Autumn Festival last year in the United States. Last year in the United States had a Mid-Autumn Festival, because the domestic undergraduate four years of schooling in the field, but also did not have a Mid-Autumn Festival at home, so although now in a foreign country, the personal feeling is not essentially the difference. Fan Longfei said, ? In fact, the elements of the festival are the same as at home, contact with the family, and then classmates and friends get together, sing K, and eat moon cakes. The Chinese Students' Association holds a Mid-Autumn Festival party every year, and those who don't go to the party usually go to a Chinese restaurant with their friends, or cook and eat hot pot together at home. Last year, I saw mooncakes on sale in a Chinese supermarket during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but I personally was not very enthusiastic about eating mooncakes. International students are very enthusiastic about eating hot pot because it's more convenient and doesn't require any great cooking skills.

Wang Zi, He Runze, Shen declining in the United States Ohio University Location: Athens, USA

"Keywords: friends, nostalgia"

? Although the Mid-Autumn Festival can not be reunited with my family, but they will always give me blessings, I can often video call with them I have been very satisfied. ? The first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of what I'm doing and how I'm doing. The only way to get rid of this nostalgia is to finish your studies and go back to your home country to be with your family.

When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes are always a must, a small snack that symbolizes happiness and reunion and sends a lot of thoughts. In fact, every year on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, America's? China Town? Every year on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a variety of mooncakes go on sale in America's Chinatowns. Shen declining sunshine, who studied in Ohio University, recalls the first Mid-Autumn Festival she spent in the American town, and her face is still full of happy smiles. When I went home from class that day as usual, I unexpectedly received a cardboard box big enough to fit a person inside. Later, my roommates helped me open it, and it was full of mooncakes and snacks sent from home, as well as homemade sausages. At that moment, we realized that the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming soon.

Wang Chao, Korea University of Foreign Studies

"Keyword: tradition"

Wang Chao, a young man from Anhui, studied abroad in South Korea after graduating from the Korean Department of the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2011, and this year's Mid-Autumn Festival will be the third one that he has spent in South Korea, which he would like to share with his friends. He would like to spend this Mid-Autumn Festival with three or five friends, hiking and sharing food from his hometown bought from a Chinese food store to relieve the pain of homesickness. Chinese students in Korea usually visit Korean folk villages or gather with other Chinese students to enjoy the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival," Wang Chao told the reporter. Wang Chao told reporters, ? My university, the Korea University of Foreign Studies, also organizes visits to Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Korean Folk Museum during Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as learning how to make traditional Korean Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies? Muffins.?

When Wang Chao first arrived in Korea, ? When Wang Chao first arrived in South Korea, he felt a sense of nostalgia for his family during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Wang Chaoping are one or two times a week to contact with their parents, the most recent video with their parents was last weekend. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, he will have dinner with his parents when they video, to express blessings and miss, he would like to say to his parents is: "I hope you take care of your health, do not worry about your parents. I hope you take care of yourselves and don't miss me too much when you're studying far away from home.

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration at Confucius Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

On September 11th, at the occasion of the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University organized a celebration at Maha Zakri. Princess Sirindhorn Building organized ? The Chinese language is the world's most important language. The event was organized by the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University. Dr. Han Shenglong said in his speech: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion, and I would like to thank all the teachers and students for their contribution to this event. Today's event included a tai chi performance by the teachers and a folk song chorus by the students, and we hope that everyone will join in and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival! Afterwards, the third-year student hosts from the Department of Chinese at JU introduced the legends of Mid-Autumn Festival and the origin of mooncakes to the audience with illustrations, so that everyone could learn Chinese culture while tasting mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Confucius Institute at JU provided mooncakes and traditional Chinese food to all the audience to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration is a must-attend event for JUCCI every year, allowing Thai students to have a deeper understanding of Chinese customs and traditions, improving their Chinese language learning, and making Chinese teachers in Thailand feel the warmth of home.

On the evening of the 14th, organized by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association of the University of New South Wales, Australia, the ? The same moonlight? Mid-Autumn Festival Party kicked off at Sydney Town Hall. Consul General Li Huaxin of the Chinese Consulate General in Sydney was invited to attend the party and delivered a speech. Consul General Li Huaxin said that the gathering of students and scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival makes this party very meaningful. Chinese students, or Chinese people around the globe, are the epitome of the same Chinese nation, the same Yanhuang descendants. We sincerely hope that the students can study well, good health, and in the future for the motherland, the country of origin to do construction.

Every festive season is a time to think of family. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, such a family reunion day, such a Mid-Autumn Festival party, so that the international students studying overseas, called for a lot less homesickness, from the University of New South Wales, Liu Xin has been studying in Australia for 2 years, he said that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, although far away from home, but very happy. Coming to watch the party with friends feels almost like sitting in front of the TV with your family to watch the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala.?

University of Edinburgh Chinese Students and Scholars Association held to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival party

Britain, Scotland, the University of Edinburgh Chinese Students and Scholars Association held the night of the 14th Edinburgh Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival party and singing competition, overseas students and the local Chinese diaspora to get together, *** with the celebration of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

***Ten contestants participated in the third ? Voices Under the Moon? Edinburgh Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Gala and Singing Competition, and decided the first runner-up. The evening program also included a violin solo, guzheng solo, violin and electric piano ensemble, as well as a raffle and a traditional Scottish dance performance and gala.

Li Ruiyou, Consul General of China in Edinburgh, presented the awards to the winners. He congratulated the success of the event and wished the overseas students and overseas Chinese a happy and prosperous Mid-Autumn Festival.