The traditions of the Chinese New Year will be the lecture topic of a visiting professor at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 12 in the Isabella Cannon Room on the Elon campus. Jinchao Kuai, visiting professor from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, will describe the Spring Festival, known as the Chinese New Year in the United States. The Chinese New Year, which begins with the first new moon of the calendar year, began Jan. 24.
Kuai will discuss traditional ways of celebrating the new year, a 15-day festival that is considered the most important in China. The Chinese celebrate New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration is traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
Kuai’s lecture, sponsored by the Isabella Cannon Center for International Studies, is free and open to the public.
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