TAG-Confucius Institute Celebrates Dragon Boat Festival 

 

AMMAN - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Confucius Institute (TAG-Confucius), the official testing center for China's HSK examinations (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi), celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival at the premises of TAG – Confucius Institute in Amman.

The Festival was attended by Mr. Mamoun Abu Al Seba`a, executive director of TAG-Confucius, Ms. Yang Songfang, dean of TAG-Confucius as well as the faculty and administrative staff of the Institute.    

The ceremony consisted of various Chinese cultural activities including, an introduction about the Dragon Boat Festival by Ms. Yang Songfang, Chinese calligraphy, knitting bracelets, as well as an exciting session of Chinese cuisine rice dumpling ( Zongzi ) in which a number of  the students participated. 

 

 

 

Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu (Chinese: 端午节)

 

Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu (Chinese: 端午节) is one of the major traditional festivals or festivals in China and most of the East Asian countries. It is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of each year in the lunisolar calendar.