FoSE Celebrated the Lunar New Year with Students and Staff
22 January 2021
Eating Laba congee, making dumplings, writing Spring Festival Couplets and cutting a window flower… These are how Faculty of Science and Engineering celebrate the Lunar New Year with staff members and students on campus.
Due to the continuous COVID-19 pandemic and the travel restriction, international staff and students in the faculty could not return their hometown, reunite with their family but they feel the love and warmth from the big family of FoSE. From the beginning of January 2021, the Faculty Office of Science and Engineering, together with the FoSE Party Committee Branch, has been organising a series of Lunar New Year celebration activities including New Year Gift delivering, Future Postbox project, and the more recently held small gathering activities to celebrate Laba Festival on January 20th.
In Chinese tradition, Chinese Lunar New Year starts after Laba Festival. Therefore, it has become a significant part in Chinese tradition to celebrate Laba Festival through eating Laba congee, a porridge consists of eight ingredients. Yesterday at noon, representatives from FoSE Party Committee Branch, gave out the congee in the atrium of PMB.
Many custom activities like a thorough clean-up, writing and pasting Spring Festival Couplets and paper cutting are also Chinese traditional way to welcome the Lunar New Year. Therefore, all FoSE staff and their family members had been cordially invited to join these New Year Celebration activities.
For some of them, it might be their first time making Chinese dumplings, trying Chinese paper cutting and learning to write Spring Festival Couplets. They enjoyed the activities very much.
It is good to see colleagues having a social time every now and then. This type of activities help us to enhance the wellbeing of our FoSE community
It was a very nice opportunity to see how to make dumpings. So, I learned how to prepare one of the popular Chinese cuisine. Also, it was a very nice moment to share the time with many people. I was happy to join the event. Thank you for organising such a nice event!
At the beginning of Year 2021, FoSE prepared New Year gift for all faculty staff members, including PPE, a coffee cup, candy and hand-writing wish card. Although the traditional New Year dinner is cancelled due to COVID-19, the best wishes are well delivered to every single members by the special package. It is worth mentioning that the mystery postman was our working group members and their family with the costume of UNNC duck, which brings big surprise and great joy to colleagues.
2020 is a special year. Thanks to all of you for your contribution to make the faculty thrive as an extraordinary one. It is our pleasure to have you all here. Wish everyone the best in the Year 2021!