Latvian Academy of Culture held a cultural experience of making dumplings

当地时间11月29日上午8点30分，拉脱维亚文化学院汉语课堂举行了一次包饺子文化体验活动。文化学院汉语课堂的老师和学生参加了这次活动。活动之初，老师通过PPT演示、视频播放等方式向学生介绍中国饮食文化，包括南北饮食的差异，不同地区的代表食物。随后用视频的方式介绍了中国的饺子文化，以及饺子的制作过程。包饺子的种类多，饺子馅也有讲究，尤其是在春节时，将硬币、或者红枣放入饺子中所代表的美好祝愿深深吸引拉脱维亚的学生。独特的中国饺子文化让拉脱维亚文化学院的学生连连感叹，即使是小小的饺子，在中国也有深厚的文化。在介绍完饺子文化以后，拉脱维亚的学生也表示在拉脱维亚也有类似的饺子，但是没有这样有趣的饺子文化，甚至现在几乎没有人自己包饺子，都是去超市买进口的饺子。随后，汉语教师将准备好的面团、擀面杖、饺子馅拿出来，学生们纷纷加入到包饺子的队伍中。其中已有一年汉语学习经历的韦多爱还向其他学生展示饺子的包法，学生们都觉得这样的文化活动特别有趣，很有意思。包好饺子以后，学生们将饺子转移到文化学院教师厨房，大家在厨房里一边等着热腾腾的饺子，一边谈论了两国在饮食上的差异，其乐融融。

At 8: 30 a.m. local time on November 29, a dumpling culture experience was held in the Chinese class of Latvian Academy of Culture. Teachers and students from the Chinese language class of the Academy of Culture took part in this activity. At the beginning of the activity, the teacher introduced the Chinese food culture to the students through PPT demonstration and video broadcast, including the differences between the north and south food and the representative food from different regions. Later, Chinese teacher introduced Chinese dumpling culture and the making process of dumplings by video. There are many kinds of dumplings, and dumpling stuffing is also exquisite. Especially during the Spring Festival, the best wishes represented by putting coins or red dates into dumplings deeply attracted Latvian students. The unique Chinese dumpling culture made students of Latvian Academy Culture repeatedly lament that even small dumplings have a deep culture in China. After introducing the dumpling culture, Latvian students also said that there are similar dumplings in Latvia, but there is no such interesting dumpling culture, even now almost no one makes dumplings by himself, and they all go to the supermarket to buy imported dumplings. Later, the Chinese teacher took out the prepared dough, rolling pin and dumpling stuffing, and the students joined the dumpling – making team one after another. Among them, Wei Duo’ai, who has been studying Chinese for a year, also showed other students how to make dumplings. The students all found such cultural activities particularly interesting. After making dumplings, the students transferred the dumplings to the teachers’ kitchen of the shcool. While waiting for hot dumplings in the kitchen, they talked about the differences in diet between the two countries and enjoyed themselves.