Monday, January 30, 2006
The Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association shared a Chinese tradition with a crowd of over 300 people Saturday night at its annual Chinese New Year show at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The show featured CSSFA and University and Lawrence community members in a 13-act show. The show included traditional music, martial arts, singing, skits and even a fashion show.
Qinqin Gong, CSSFA communications and propaganda coordinator and Qsingtao graduate student, said in China the New Year is to celebrate the harvest and the start of the next spring.
The holiday has been around for as long as the lunar calender - thousands of years - but modern families use it to get together and visit.
Gong said China’s biggest television network, CCTV-1, organizes and broadcasts a celebration that millions of people watch.
On a smaller scale, CSSFA brought that celebration to the University Saturday night.
In attendance were not only some of the over 200 members of the club, but also members of the University, Lawrence and Kansas City communities.
The occasion was eclectic in all senses. Red New Year charms that bring luck and happiness hung from the doors and were carried throughout the auditorium by those in attendance.
People in bright-colored traditional clothing moved in and out of the auditorium, pausing to chat and watch the performances and children playing in the aisles with plastic dinosaurs.
Lei Zhang, a researcher in the Chemistry Department, was there with his family. Zhang’s wife, Rongti Li said she is from Shandong and liked going to the show.
The martial arts act showed demonstrations not only from China, but Japan, Brazil and Korea.
One of the skits incorporated a traditional Chinese story called “Journey to the West” with modern elements, such as references to Monica and Chandler in the television show “Friends” and Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio’s characters “flying” at the bow of the Titanic to Celine Dion’s popular theme song. A dinner, which served special food for the Chinese New Year, followed the performances, said Ji Hong, Wuxi sophomore and CSSFA webmaster. The dinner included dumplings, a “necessary” food and oolong tea, a mix of red and black tea. Red is the symbol for happiness and good luck in the New Year, Hong said.
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