The leaders of Tianjin University and more than 200 teachers and students from home and abroad who stayed at the university celebrated the Spring Festival together on February 4.
On the afternoon of the Spring Festival's Eve, Weijin Road Campus of Tianjin University’s Canteen No.4 was decorated with lanterns and colored hangings and looked so inviting. The University arranged buses to gather the students from the Peiyangyuan Campus to take them to the Weijin Road Campus. International faculty and students who stayed at the university were also invited to attend this party. They wrote Fu characters, guessed riddles, cut paper window flowers, and made dumplings together. Teachers and students laughed and talked together while experiencing various Chinese New Year folk customs.
The university's dolls for the Year of the Pig and red scarves were the most popular props for teachers and students to take self-portraits and photographs.
Lei Ming, Deputy Party Secretary of Tianjin University, Jia Qijun, a member of the University Standing Committee and Director of the Publicity Department, and heads of many departments and offices spent a warm Spring Festival's Eve together with the students.
Lei Ming, on behalf of the university, sent best wishes to those who stayed at the university and hoped everyone makes progress and strives to create a better China and world in the New Year.
Several partygoers gave splendid literature and art performances, an excellent guitar performance, enthusiastic dancing and romantic solo songs. The wonderful performances won a lot of applause. During the party, there was also a lottery drawn. Tianjin University also sent red envelopes with cash and selected books for every Chinese and international student, such as What is Science, and On Intelligence. Such special gifts conveyed wishes, love and expectations to the students.
Yang Yang and Chen Sarula, a Ph.D. couple from the School of Architecture, and their child stayed at the university for the New Year because they were preparing for their graduation. He said, “It’s the first time to have New Year's Eve dinner on Campus. It's so lively! Thank you for everything that the University has prepared for us. It's warm.”
University leaders and students who stayed at the university spent New Year's Eve together, delivered New Year's best wishes and distributed New Year's red envelopes. This warm tradition has been followed by Tianjin University for more than 20 years. This year, the hundreds of students who stayed at the university for the Spring Festival were given "gift packs" including fruits, dried fruits and candies.
Editors: Sun Xiaofang and Ross Colquhoun
