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. (Courtesy photos, click to enlarge)
Making lanterns at the Center for Global Education and Exchange table.
Student tries on lion costume at the Annual Chinese Spring Festival, Jan. 23, 2023. (Courtesy photo)
The Annual Chinese Spring Festival celebration was held at the University of Hawai‘i 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. (Courtesy photos, click to enlarge)
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. (Courtesy photo, click to enlarge)
LION DANCING
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. (Courtesy photos, click to enlarge)
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 audience at the the Annual Chinese Festival on Jan. 23, 2023, UH Hilo’s Mookini Library lānai. (Courtesy photo, click to enlarge)
DANCE
Fan dance performance at the Annual Chinese Spring Festival, Jan 23, 2023, UH Hilo’s Mookini Library lānai. (Courtesy photos, click to enlarge)
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. (Courtesy photos, click to enlarge)
Shuttlecock game.
Game of pitch pot.
Story by Susan Enright, a 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.