Confucius Classroom at Rezekne Academy of Technologies Celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival

当地时间10月4日，正值中国传统佳节中秋节，雷泽克内大学孔子课堂师生欢庆中秋。

本次讲座除了中秋知识讲解，还设了四个活动项目：中国书法、制作中秋灯笼、中秋音乐欣赏和品月饼。讲座从中秋节的介绍开始，中文教师赵倩借助生动有趣的图片，让在场的师生们了解了中秋节的文化背景和风俗习惯。接着，她教大家用毛笔写“中秋快乐”四个汉字，带着学生制作中秋节灯笼，并让学生将自己的愿望写在灯笼上。接下来，她介绍了宋代著名诗人苏轼的《水调歌头》，并播放了根据这首诗创作的音乐作品，现场的观众都沉浸在优美的歌声中。

活动的最后，现场师生一起品尝月饼并留影纪念。通过这次讲座活动，大家了解了不少关于中国的文化知识，觉得中国的传统文化非常有趣，希望以后能多举办类似的讲座。

Local time on October 4, as the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Day,Confucius Classroom at Rezekne Academy of Technologies celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The lecture contained the introduction of Mid-Autumn Festival,and three activities: Chinese Calligraphy,hand-making Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns, music appreciation and mooncake tasting.The lecture started from the introduction of Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese teacher Zhao Qian used several interesting pictures to show the cultural background and customs of Mid-Autumn Festival.During the activity time, she taught everyone how to write “Zhong Qiu Kuai Le”(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival) this four Chinese characters by Chinese Calligraphy brush pen patiently.Later,she taught students how to make the Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns and let the students write their good wishes on their lantern.After this activity, she introduced the famous Song Dynasty poet Su Shi’s work: ” PRELUDE TO WATER MELODY”, played the song based on this poem, the participants were all immersed in this beautiful song .

In the end of this lecture, students and teachers were enjoying moon cakes and took pictures together of the occasion. Through this lecture, participants have learned a lot of knowledge about Chinese culture,realizing that Chinese traditional culture is very interesting, they are looking forward to holding more events like this lecture.