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Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia Successfully Held the first online Spring Festival Gala

Posted by laon1986 on Feb 13, 2021 in 中国文化, 中国节日, 合作交流, 拉大孔院, 拉大孔院快讯 | 0 comments

9:28 pm, Feb 11st, Beijing time, the first online Spring Festival Gala video of Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia , was successfully uploaded to the most famous video website, bilibili.com, in China. And in the very next day, at 2:43 pm, this video was also successfully uploaded to Youtube.

Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, both of the students and the teachers from the Confucius Institute of University at Latvia, are not able to get together to perform a live show for everyone. However, with the development of the network, students and teachers from CIUL, tried their best to collect their congratulating videos and performance videos together, to make a special Spring Festival Gala with their own features, which not only preserving the tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival annually in CIUL, but also evolving and enriching the performing methods of the Spring Festival Gala from CIUL. Like the Chinese director of the CIUL said, it has successfully created a precedent on the history of CIUL.

According to Wu Zhixin, the Chinese teacher from CIUL, also the director of this online Spring Festival Gala, the whole preparation for this video, was really intense: from the birth of the idea to the collection of the materials, and from the editing work to finish uploading, we have only 9 days to finish creating such a big video, except our daily teaching work.

Wu said, “The biggest challenge we faced in the online Spring Festival Gala, was the schedule and the daily arrangement, because on one hand, our time was quite short, and there is a huge difference between China and Latvia, therefore, our first priority of the preparation for this gala video, is how to manage the time of students and teachers to collect enough materials as well as arranging the following steps to make sure everything going well and smoothly according to our plan. On the other hand, at the very first beginning of the preparation, we have only 3 core members, and they are Zhu Kejia, the volunteer Chinese teacher, who is responsible for video editing as well as music arrangement; Bai Bingyu, the professional Chinese teacher, who is responsible for flash animations as well as sound effects; and me, who is responsible for script writing, subtitles translating work and the inspirations for the gala video. However, as the preparation is going well accordingly, more people joined in our team, such as Zhu Bofan, the volunteer Chinese teacher who would be the host of this online Spring Festival Gala of CIUL, and Zou Yaping, the professional Chinese teacher who will be a special guest in the video. Therefore, although we had really limited time to make this video, thanks to their understanding and cooperation, as well as their high efficiency, so that we can achieve the goal, to present you this online Spring Festival Gala which is 1 hour and 24 minutes in total, in such a short time. So, most of all, I would really want to show my deepest and most sincere gratitude to my crew, for their understanding and continuous supporting and contribution to this video.”

Wu also added, “In addition, I would also like to show my gratitude to every student, every teacher and every staff from Confucius Institute at University of Latvia. Because it was your passion, positive attitude and great performance that makes this online Spring Festival Gala so amazing and splendidly great. Also, it was because of your passion, understanding and support, that makes us understand the meaning conveyed by a famous Chinese sentence, although we reside in far corners of the world, having a good friend is akin to having a good neighbor. Needless to say, that now we realize that we have so many friends in Latvia now. Therefore, I am also showing my deepest and sincere appreciation to our Latvian students. At the same time, our crew would also like to send our New Year wishes to Latvia, wishing our Latvian friends stay in good health, and may all the luck be with you!

Moreover, about the first online Spring Festival Gala from Confucius Institute at University of Latvia, Wu also implied the following things to us:

The inspiration of this online Spring Festival Gala, comes from the book, Confucius Institute at University of Latvia: A guide to the life and work of volunteers, as well as the life recordings and memories between students and teachers from CIUL in the past year;
The performing way of this online Spring Festival Gala, will be in the way combining touring and making travel notes;
Theperforming structure of this gala video, will be arranged according to the 5 planning regions of Latvia, and they are Riga Region, Latgale Region, Zemgale Region, Kuzeme Region and Vidzeme Region;
At the end of of this online Spring Festival Gala, we design an Easter egg for you, hoping you can finish the whole video as well as understanding the purpose of this Easter egg.
Hope you can support our first online Spring Festival Gala, from Confucius Institute at University of Latvia;
And here are the links for you guys to watch it:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/G4vOLBsCc9c

Bilibili.com: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1aU4y1W7Sv

Last but not least, here is the Chinese New Year wishes from all the crew members of Confucius Institute at University of Latvia, we wish you:

Happy Chinese New Year! Stay in good health! May all the luck be with you in the Year of Ox! And may everything will be going well with you and everything will come true as you wish! Also, we wish you a sky-high prosperity in your career and having the immerse power to realize your goals!

北京时间2021年2月11日晚上9点28分，知名的弹幕视频网站Bilibili.com，正式上线了拉脱维亚大学孔子学院的首部网络春节联欢晚会视频。而在北京时间次日，也即是大年初一下午2点43分，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院的网络春节联欢晚会视频，也已经正式上线Youtube。

因受疫情影响，拉大孔院的师生们今年无法为大家进行实地演出。不过，得益于网络技术的发展，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院的全体师生，大胆尝试着运用网络技术，将师生的祝福以及表演视频，收集汇总到一起，融汇成了一台专属于拉大孔院自己的特色春晚。这既保留了拉大孔院欢度春节的晚会传统，又革新并丰富了晚会的表演形式，开创了拉大孔院的历史先河。

据本次网络春晚的总负责人，汉语教师志愿者吴致昕透露：本次网络春晚的筹备工作，进行得十分紧张，从想法萌芽到收集素材，再从视频剪辑到成片上传，除去日常的教学工作，我们满打满算只有9天左右的时间。吴说道：“这次的网络春晚最大的挑战，就是时间安排了：一方面我们的时间比较紧张，而且因为与拉脱维亚存在着较大的时差，如何协调好师生双方的时间来收集素材，并安排下一步工作，保证各个流程环环相扣，顺利流畅，是我们需要解决的首要问题。另一方面，在这个筹备过程的最初，我们一共只有三位核心成员，分别是担任视频剪辑的汉语教师志愿者朱可嘉，担任动画特效制作的公派教师白冰玉以及负责脚本、字幕翻译以及灵感创意的我。不过，后来随着筹备工作的有序进行，更多的人加入到我们的团队中，例如在本次网络春晚中担当主持人的汉语教师志愿者朱柏帆以及特别来宾，公派教师邹亚平。因此虽然我们的时间比较紧张，但是得益于成员们的理解配合，以及她们的高效，我们才能得以在如此短的时间内，为大家呈现出这台，合计1小时24分钟的网络春晚。所以我想先在这里，特别感谢团队成员们的理解支持和奉献。”

吴补充道：“除去我们团队之外，我还想在这里向拉脱维亚大学孔子学院各教学点的全体师生致谢。因为正是你们的积极热情以及精彩的表演，才能让这台网络晚会显得如此异彩纷呈。也正是你们的热情、理解、配合与支持，让我们明白了‘海内存知己，天涯若比邻’的道理，所以我在这里，向我们的拉脱维亚学生们致以诚挚的感谢。同时我们团队也为拉脱维亚，送上我们的新年祝愿，祝拉脱维亚的朋友们牛年大吉，身体健康。”

另外，关于拉大孔院的首部网络春晚，汉教志愿者吴致昕还透露了以下的这些内容：