In Pictures: Lantern Festival Celebration

We are deeply grateful to all of you – students (including alumni and visiting students), staff members (including visiting academics), and their families – for your support in making the Year of the Snake celebration a success over the past weeks. This has been a truly remarkable celebration, bringing together diverse communities at Queen’s and beyond, fostering intercultural exchange and deeper understanding among people from different cultural backgrounds.

We take great pride in hosting this grand celebration, the very first of 2025 at Queen’s, which also marks the beginning of the University’s 180th Anniversary celebrations. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting lineup of events as part of Queen’s 180th Anniversary celebration programme – stay tuned for more opportunities to engage and celebrate together!

Happy Lantern Festival

Happy Lantern Festival! 元宵节快乐!

With thanks to our students Chen and Yuhang who shared the beautiful lantern photos taken in Belfast, we would like to wish you all a happy and healthy year!

Today is the Lantern Festival, which marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end of the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) celebration period. We hope you have enjoyed our Year of the Tiger celebration events so far, and welcome you to continue with our Chinese Culture Forum, with two cultural talks remaining in February (16th and 23rd).

For upcoming events, please follow our Chinese Culture Forum 2022 for updates.