Chinese New Year Cultural Experience Event successfully held in the ethnic museum – The World of Hat

当地时间2月2号，上午11点，拉脱维亚“帽子的世界”民族博物馆举行了一场别开生面的中国新年文化体验活动。

本次活动由拉脱维亚“帽子的世界”民族博物馆主办，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院等多个单位协办。孔院中方院长尚劝余教授，博物馆工作人员，汉语教师志愿者老师，以及社会各界人士参加了本次活动。

本次活动的主办方“帽子的世界”博物馆于2014年建馆，坐落于一座安静的里加公寓里，共有五个展厅，是世界上最大的头饰系列展馆之一。在中国传统新年来临之际，馆内特意推出中国文化体验活动。

活动中，中国汉语教师志愿者先为小朋友们讲述了一段关于“年”的故事，接着进行了惟妙惟肖的寻宝活动，最后在中国志愿者教师的协同下，一起体验了中国结，中国戏剧脸谱等手工艺品的制作。

本次活动展现了中国新年的传统习俗，传统服饰，汉字等等中国元素，使人们对中国新年的文化有了更多的认识。

Local time at 11:00 am, on February 2nd, ethnic museum “The World of Hat” in Latvia held a unique Chinese New Year cultural experience.

The event was hosted by the ethnic museum “The World of Hat” and co-organized by the Confucius Institute of the University of Latvia. Professor Shang Quanyu, the Chinese Dean of the Confucius Institute, museum staff, Chinese volunteer teachers, and people from society participated in the event.

The event’s organizer was built in 2014. It is housed in a quiet Riga apartment with five exhibition halls and is one of the world’s largest collections of headwear series. On the occasion of the Chinese traditional New Year, the museum has specially launched Chinese cultural experience activities.

During the event, Chinese volunteer teachers firstly told the children a story about the “Year”, followed by a vivid treasure hunt, and finally, with the cooperation of Chinese volunteer teachers, they experienced the Chinese knot, Chinese drama mask and so on.

The event showed the traditional Chinese customs, traditional costumes, Chinese characters and other Chinese elements, which made people have a better understanding of the Chinese New Year culture.

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