The Fifth Anniversary of Confucius Classroom in Riga Culture Secondary School as well as the Chinese New Year Celebration was held in Riga Culture Secondary School
2月1日下午3时，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院下设里加文化中学孔子课堂五周年暨2018年新年庆祝活动在里加文化中学礼堂拉开了帷幕。参加本次活动的嘉宾有中国驻拉大使馆孙应来参赞、拉脱维亚大学孔子学院拉方院长贝德高教授和中方院长尚劝余教授、拉脱维亚教育中心主任Signe Neimane女士、里加34中学校长Nataļja Rogaļeva女士和副校长Marina Grečaņina女士、新华社的李德萍女士和郭群先生等。
里加文化中学校长Solveiga Remese女士首先向到场的各位嘉宾表示热烈欢迎并用拉语致辞，来自11年级的汉语班学生为其进行了中文翻译。Solveiga Remese女士表示作为拉脱维亚乃至波罗的海地区的第一家孔子课堂，五年来，里加文化中学孔子课堂就像中拉间的一座文化桥梁，让学生们可以更好地学习中国语言与文化。随后中国驻拉脱维亚大使馆孙应来参赞，孔子学院中方院长尚劝余教授及拉方院长贝德高教授分别致辞，表达了对孔子课堂成立五周年和2018年新年的祝贺。
接着，里加文化中学孔子课堂的师生及拉脱维亚大学孔子学院的汉语教师为现场观众带来了一场中国元素精彩纷呈的文艺汇演。开场是歌舞表演《新年来了》，该歌曲由汉语教师改编自拉国民歌，学生们一边手舞绘有青花瓷图案和汉字的扇子，一边用汉语演绎拉国歌曲，共迎2018年中国新年；舞蹈《说唱脸谱》紧随其后，男生女生分别手拿功夫扇和自绘的脸谱，跟着音乐，举手移步，昂首定睛，干净利落；歌舞之后是古文朗诵，文化中学的学生们将中国韵文《三字经》与现代流行的杯子舞放在了一起，学生们学着古人盘腿而坐，齐诵《三字经》……最后，汉语班的所有学生一起为观众们合唱歌曲《彩云追月》和《感恩的心》。一首《感恩的心》，表达了学生们对中国驻拉脱维亚大使馆、孔子学院总部和拉脱维亚大学孔子学院的感恩之情，感谢它们对里加文化中学孔子课堂五年来的支持，让学生们可以更好地学习汉语与中国文化。伴随着歌曲的结束，本次汇演也落下了帷幕。大家合影留念，活动圆满结束。
本次活动的节目，除了古筝独奏与茶艺表演由汉语教师表演外，其他节目以及中拉双语主持都由里加文化中学的学生承担完成，整场汇演的演员及主持共计近60人，这比前年毕业汇演的人数翻了一倍。本次活动既给了学生们一个展示汉语所学的机会，也是对孔子课堂五年来汉语教学一次很好的总结。五周年的圆满落幕为孔子课堂下一个五年拉开了帷幕。
Local time 3:00 pm, February 1st, the fifth Anniversary of Confucius Classroom in Riga Culture Secondary School as well as the Chinese New Year Celebration was held in the big hall of Riga Culture Secondary School. Guests present included the counsellor Sun Yinglai from the Embassy of China, Prof. Pildgovics, the Latvian-side Director of LUCI and Prof. Shang Quanyu, the Chinese-side Director of LUCI, Mrs Signe Neimane, the director of Latvia’s Education Center, Mrs Nataļja Rogaļeva and Mrs Marina Grečaņina, the director and the deputy director of Riga 34 Secondary School, Miss Li Deping and Mr Guo Qun from Xinhua News Agency.
Ms. Solveiga Remese, the principal of Riga Culture Secondary School, firstly gave a warm welcome to all the guests and a speech in Latvian, a student fron Chinese class translated it into Chinese. Ms. Solveiga Remese said that as the first Confucius Classroom in Latvia, and in the three Baltic countries, Confucius Classroom in Riga Culture Secondary School is like a cultural bridge between China and Latvia, which gave students more opportunities to learn Chinese language and culture. Then counsellor Sun Yinglai from the Embassy of China as well as two directors from LUCI gave speeches to the audience, congratulating on the founding of the 5th anniversary of Confucius Classroom as well as the Chinese New Year celebration.
Then, teachers and students from Confucius Classroom in Riga Culture Secondary School and Chinese teachers from LUCI gave a splendid show filled with Chinese elements to the audience. The opening show is singing and dancing performance The new year is coming, which was adapted from a Latvian song by Chinese teachers. Students danced with the fans painted with blue and white porcelain, while singing to welcome the new year. Following it was the dance Singing the Perking Opera, boys holding Kungfu fans while girls with DIY facial masks, did the movements by rule and line. Next was Chinese traditional Verse recitation, students did cup song Three Character Classic, which was a combination of Chinese traditional Verse and modern cup dance, siting as how ancient Chinese people did. The last performance is two chorus Colorful clouds chasing the moon and Grateful heart, which expressing students’ appreciaiton to the Embassy of Chinain Latvia, the Headquarters of Confucius Institute, Confucius Institute at the University of latvia, thank them for their support to Confucius classroom in Riga Culture Secondary School for five years. The end of the song was also the end of the 5th Anniversary Show fell to the curtain. All the people had a group photo, and the show was successful.
For all the performances of this activity, except the guzheng solo and tea ceremony, other performances were all done by students. The performers were totally nearly 60 people, the number was doubled over the previous year. This event not only gave students a chance to show their Chinese language, but also was a good summary of the Chinese teaching in the past five years of the Confucius Classroom. The closing curtain of 5th Anniversary is a new beginning for the next five years of Confucius Classroom.
