{"id":4257,"date":"2024-02-09T16:27:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2024-02-10T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:48:42","slug":"happy-year-of-the-loong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2024\/02\/09\/happy-year-of-the-loong\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Year of the Loong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u9f99 L\u00f3ng (or Loong \/ Chinese Dragon) has just arrived at Queen’s!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What an exciting day to welcome the auspicious \u9f99 L\u00f3ng (or Loong \/ Chinese Dragon) to Queen’s One Elmwood on Thursday 8th February, regardless of the blustery weather (which was said to be accompanying the Loong)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dragon Dance performed by QUB Success Lion Dance Club at One Elmwood social space.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over 60 staff and student representatives from a range of diverse cultural backgrounds celebrated the launch of Year of The Chinese Dragon programme, jointly organised by the Language Centre, iRISE Staff Network, Student Experience <\/a>Team, The Graduate School, Chinese Students and Scholars Association, supported by Diversity, Inclusion and Staff Wellbeing Unit, and partially sponsored by the QUB Annual Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Margaret Topping, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement, welcomed the value of contact between different languages and cultures for the benefit of enhanced mutual respect through intercultural exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Margaret Topping, PVC (Global Engagement), delivered a welcome speech to the audience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We wish that this celebration programme on the Year of The Chinese Dragon, as part of our Celebrating Cultural Diversity at Queen’s scheme, will make a contribution to the multicultural campus development, which sees differences as strength to foster an environment of open-mindedness and acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Launch event featured student\/alumni performances including guzheng music and classical dance, QUB Staff Wellbeing Choir’s singing of both Chinese and local songs, and the bustling and exciting Dragon Dance inside One Elmwood, followed by an interactive CNY Fair with cultural displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n