ʻAʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi │ One learns from many sources │ A web publication from the Office of the Chancellor, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
The Annual Chinese Spring Festival celebration was held at UH Hilo on Jan. 23, the second day of the Lunar New Year.
UH Hilo’s Annual Chinese Spring Festival celebration was headed by Jiren Feng (third from left), associate professor of Chinese studies and program coordinator of the Chinese studies certificate program, and students who planned, set up, and hosted the activities. Jan. 23, 2023, Mookini Library lānai. (Photos: Courtesy of the Certificate in Chinese Studies program/UH Hilo)
Making lanterns at the Center for Global Education and Exchange table.
Best wishes display created by students.
Handicrafts table.
By Susan Enright/UH Hilo Stories. Photos: Courtesy of Certificate in Chinese Studies program/UH Hilo.
Student tries on lion costume at the Annual Chinese Spring Festival, Jan. 23, 2023.
The Annual Chinese Spring Festival celebration was held at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo on Jan. 23, 2023, the second day of the Lunar New Year. The event was held on Mookini Library’s lānai.
Guests enjoyed displays of beautiful Chinese handicrafts, and were offered hands-on activities in papercrafts, spring couplets, brush writing, and Chinese zodiac signs.
Students and faculty taught calligraphy, papercraft, lion dance (complete with full-size costume), Chinese birdie kicking, pitch pot, fan dance, and more.
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Jiren Feng talks to students about the Chinese studies certificate program and Spring Festival customs at the Annual Chinese Spring Festival, Jan 23, 2023, Mookini Library lānai.
Jiren Feng at the Chinese Zodiac table.
Students at the paper craft table.
Student sits at the calligraphy table.
Above, a table at the Annual Chinese Spring Festival where people could have their name written in Chinese, Jan 23, 2023, Mookini Library’s lānai.
Lion Dance
Lion costume awaits people who want to have fun learning how to do traditional Lion Dance, thought to bring good luck and fortune for the new year.
Jiren Feng (at right) shows how to do traditional Chinese Lion Dance.
Friends look on as someone tries the Lion Dance.
Someone having fun trying the Lion Dance.
Song
Jiren Feng teaches a Chinese song to the audience at the Annual Chinese Festival on Jan. 23, 2023, UH Hilo’s Mookini Library lānai.
Dance
Fan dance performance at the Annual Chinese Spring Festival, Jan 23, 2023, UH Hilo’s Mookini Library lānai.
Introduction of Fan Dance.
Fan Dance.
Yangge Dance.
Others join in Yangge Dance.
Games
Students play shuttlecock or birdie kicking, a traditional Chinese game where players try to keep a weighted shuttlecock in the air by using their bodies but no hands.
Shuttlecock game.
Game of pitch pot.
Story by Susan Enright, public information specialist for the Office of the Chancellor and editor of UH Hilo Stories. She received her bachelor of arts in English and certificate in women’s studies from UH Hilo.
