To celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, the Yaowang sub-district in Taixing city – in East China's Jiangsu province – held an event on Jan 27 featuring a raft of fun handicraft and cultural activities for local children.
The event aimed to help the kids to appreciate and cherish traditional Chinese culture and for them to have a happy winter vacation.
Writing and pasting onto paper images of fu, the Chinese character meaning good luck, are important customs to welcome in the Chinese New Year, expressing people's wishes for a better life.
A calligraphy exponent teaches kids how to write fu. [Photo/Taixing High-tech Zone via WeChat gh_306bee9ab06e]
Yaowang sub-district's civilization practice stations invited calligraphy fans to write fu on red paper for children and taught the little ones how to do it.
In addition, volunteers at the stations demonstrated the basic methods, steps and techniques of paper cutting to the children, helping them to create their own paper-cutting works.
The paper-cutting activity was designed to improve the focus of the children and their hands-on ability, and help them understand the appeal of traditional Chinese culture, said a parent called Li Lin.
Ye Jingcheng, an intangible cultural heritage inheritor, showed the kids how to make sugar paintings. Through the dab use of their hands, a lifelike dragon sugar painting was finished. The children there were said to have had a ball.
Kids try their hand at paper cutting. [Photo/Taixing High-tech Zone via WeChat gh_306bee9ab06e]