Shangsi Festival, a traditional Chinese folk festival, is celebrated on March 3rdon Chinese lunar calendar. It fallson March 26 this year. On that day, the HNU International Student Office introduced related cultural information of the festival to the foreign students through WeChat. The dormitory and logistics service center also presented the festival’s traditional food “eggs boiled with shepherd's purse and red dates” to more than 160 students staying in campus.
A canteen staff presents eggs boiled with shepherd's purse and red dates to a foreign student.
HNU International Students Office’s posts a Shangsi Festival article on WeChat.
Amid the epidemic the dormitory management center and International Students Office personnel have been holding fast to their own positions for the students staying in the campus. They adopted a series of epidemic prevention and control measures: recording and inquiring each student’s information; presenting anti-epidemic materials; strengthening dormitory access management and health monitoring; publicizing epidemic prevention and control knowledge; enhancing routine ventilation and disinfection; and, providing meal delivery service.
The international students staying at the campus expressed their gratitude in their own ways. A Nigerian doctoral student donated 180 masks to the faculty and staff working at the front line. Burmese students volunteered to advocate all Burmese students studying in China to make donations to Wuhan; Pakistan student Farjad created a song “Where will you go? Please Come to Changsha”. Wang Yu (Chinese name) from Tajikistan and Na Men (Chinese name) from Afghanistan jointly created a music video “My Chinese Heart”, to cheer up Chinese people.
Music video “My Chinese Heart” created by international students
Original song “Where will you go? Please come to Changsha” created by Farjad
