🌟 Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals in China🥰, and it is becoming more popular around the world🌏, especially since 2024 when it was officially listed as a #UN floating holiday. 🧐 How will you celebrate the Spring Festival this year? Will you return home or stay in China? How do you celebrate the Spring Festival back home? ✨You are welcome to submit photos, essays and videos to our "Study in China" platform about the "Spring Festival Celebration" (studyinginchina@126.com). We will select outstanding works to publish on our various platforms. ⏰ The deadline for submissions is Feb 13, one day after the Lantern Festival. 👨‍💻 Remember to tell us your name, school, nationality and basic information about your work in your e-mail. 🥰 Wish you a fulfilling Spring Festival holiday! #SpringFestival #Submission #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina

How fluent is your Chinese? If you don't know, try to sing this song called "Chinese". Listen to Ramiro Fernando Salemme from #Argentina challenging himself to sing the song. Guess what happened at the end of the video? #LearnChinese #SingChinese #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina

Happy Lantern Festival🎊! May your life be as warm and sweet as #Tangyuan, and as bright and splendid as #lanterns shining✨ in the dark night! #LanternFestival #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina

The Canadian International School of Shenyang (#CISS) welcomed its students returning from the winter vacation with a grand performance of dragon and lion dance. Does the video remind you of the expectations you harbored before a new semester😀? Keep those expectations with you, no matter where you are! #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #WinterVacation #DragonDance #LionDance #NewSemester #Expectations

Sweet Rice Rings, or Tanghuan (糖环), is a traditional dish from southern China, carrying auspicious meanings😘 such as "endless harmony" and "interconnectedness". Watch the process of making Tanghuan, recorded by Li Linxiao from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen during the Spring Festival. #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #Delicacy #SpringFestival @cuhksz

Agshin Aliyev from #Azerbaijan, who once studied in China, is now a professor✨ at Beijing Foreign Studies University. As this is the year of the snake🐍 according to the Chinese zodiac, he shared his stories of learning Chinese idioms about snakes, as well as stories about snakes in Azerbaijani culture. Click the video for more! #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #YearofthSnake #BFSU @bfsu_official

"The most amazing part for me was the #dragondance — it looked like the dragon had come to life," Ekaterina Vorobeva, a #Russian student from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, shared her excitement🤩 after attending the #TaiboTempleFair in Meili Ancient Town, #Wuxi, #Jiangsu province. The Taibo Temple Fair was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in December 2024. Click the link for more. #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #XJTLU @XJTLU @UNESCO @WuxiCity @JiangsuNow

Wishing Aaron Schrag-Toso a fulfilling journey🥳 in both academic pursuit and life at #WuhanUniversity!

Wow, international students at Dalian Medical University tried various kinds of traditional Chinese games and crafts🥰, including pitch pot, paper-cutting and sugar painting, during Spring Festival celebrations. Going by their smiles, they must have enjoyed the games. 🎉 #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #SpringFestival #DalianMedicalUniversity

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Have you noticed that the #snake holds a unique place🐍 in various cultures? It is sometimes seen as a "bad" creature in both Chinese and Western cultures. Then, why does it hold a place as one of the 12 Chinese #zodiacs? Why is it a symbol of medicine in Western culture? Click the video to find out! #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #ChineseNewYear #YearoftheSnake

Have you visited the cinema this #SpringFestival? If not, consider catching #NeZha2, the record breaking blockbuster movie that claimed the top spot✨ on China's all-time box office charts. Released five years after the huge success of #NeZha 1, the animated feature sequel has a broader world view, portraying both the growth of Ne Zha and the stories of many unique characters. Make the most of your winter vacation with this cinematic masterpiece!🥰 #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina

Students from the #LubanWorkshop in #Ethiopia loved the hands-on experience👨‍🔧 at the courses taught by Jiang Jiang, who is also a teacher at Tianjin University of Technology and Education. "Now, you can find my students in any vocational education institution in Ethiopia," said Jiang, who has helped over 3000 students in Ethiopia connect with the world. 🌍 #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina

⏰Wake up! The Spring Festival holiday is over, and today is the second working day of the New Year. Still reminiscing about the joy of Spring Festival? Click on the video and join Brazilian student Chicão Manna as he strolls through the Spring Festival Flower🌸 Fair in #Shenzhen. Did you buy #flowers this year for Spring Festival? Let's embrace spring with flowers! 🥳 #SpringFestival #FlowerMarket #Shenzhen #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina

Atossa and Nazanin Dehghanbordbar, two #Iranian sisters studying at #TianjinUniversity, celebrated their third Chinese New Year in the port city🥰. Talking about Spring Festival, Atossa said it reminded her of #Nowruz, Iranian New Year, as "both are about family, special meals and hope for the future". Click the link to read more about the Iranian sisters studying in China. 🔗 #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #ChineseNewYear #SpringFestival2025

Nathan Audric Haryono, an #Indonesian student studying at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, celebrated Chinese New Year in his homeland. During the holiday, Nathan and his family enjoyed playing with lion dance costumes. They gather every year to celebrate Chinese New Year😘, feasting and watching lion dance performances. #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #ChineseNewYear @cuhksz

#French people enjoyed an array of Chinese cultural performances, from traditional lion and dragon dances🥰 to Yingge Chinese folk dance from South China's #Guangdong province at the grand parade to celebrate Chinese New Year held on Avenue des Champs-Elysees in #Paris on Feb 2. #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #ChineseNewYear

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International students from Beijing Foreign Studies University visited the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts, where they wore traditional Chinese opera costumes✨ and learned opera moves, and opera's combination with modern art forms. #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #BFSU @bfsu_official

How do #US students celebrate the Year of the Snake? Born in the Year of the Snake themselves, the young students learned about how to write Chinese character "Fu" (fortune) and delved deep into what the snake symbolizes in Chinese culture.🤩 Click the link for more. #StudyInChina #EncountersWithChina #YearofSnake