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JU visit Pearl S. Buck Museum to Celebrate the Lantern Festival

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The Lantern Festival (Yuan Xiao Jie 元宵节) falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. Dated as early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance in China.
 
This year’s lantern festival falls on the 24th of February, 2013. Several activities were organized in Zhenjiang to Mack this great festival including the special party at the Pearl S. Buck Museum where some students of the O.E.C were invited to participate. 
 
It is the first time for some of us to join with our Chinese friends to celebrate such a great festival. We had the opportunity to participate in several exciting program including making of dumplings, Yuan xiao (a special food for lantern festival), tag of war, Chinese shadow boxing and many more.
 
The overwhelming aspect of the program to some of us was the display of pearl S. Buck’s work a renowned American woman writer who lives almost all her life in Zhenjiang and composed over 100 books including the Good Earth. Her great work won her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Her history encouraged us a lot towards our education.
 
The program was full of excitement, motivation, and deeply impressed all of us. On behalf of my colleagues I wish all my Teachers and Chinese friends happy lantern festival.
 
         

                                                                                                                              
                                                                                       Abdul-Nazif

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