THE Chinese Cultural Centre (CCC) alongside the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs is scheduled to host the ‘2025 Happy Chinese New Year Folklife Festival’ at Nausori Plaza tomorrow.
The event will showcase Chinese cultural traditions and its similarities with the iTaukei culture. The CCC said the Chinese New Year is significant to Chinese people worldwide.
“The Spring festival is a social practice of the Chinese people in celebration of traditional new year, which has been inscribed in 2024 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,” the CCC said in a statement.
Starting at 10am, the event will feature:
- The launching ceremony of Year of the Snake Stamp 2025,
- China and Fiji’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Fan Art Show, presenting China and Fiji’s traditional and contemporary fan art,
- China Zodiac 34 Exhibition, zodiac snack image design from 34 designer,
- China and Fiji’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Ceramic Art Show, presenting China and Fiji’s ceramic art,
- Exhibition of intangible cultural heritage relating to Chinese New Year from Shaanxi Province, China,
- Exhibition of intangible cultural heritage creative products, showcasing the designs that combine everyday items and intangible cultural heritage and more.
- Presentation of Chaozhou Cuisine, and
- Chinese New Year Concert.
- Food stalls from both China and Fiji.
According to the Chinese calendar; January 28 is this year’s Chinese New Year’s Eve, and the Chinese Zodiac will change from 2024’s Loong (Year of the Dragon) to 2025’s snake.
