Chinese Club Celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival with Campus and Community Guests

Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on October 9, 2019, No Comments

Student members of East Stroudsburg University’s Chinese Club celebrated a mid-autumn festival on September 13 in Beers Lecture Hall near the front entrance of campus.

They were supported by the local Chinese community, and also by faculty and Chinese language students associated with ESU’s department of modern languages, philosophy and religion.

This celebration focused on a traditional Chinese fall feast, complete with music, calligraphy, entertainment and intergenerational community participation.

The Chinese II class performed a special Chinese lesson, showing their understanding of Chinese culture and Chinese proficiency.

Other students of Chinese sang “the moon represents my heart,” a very popular Chinese song.

A recent ESU graduate and Chinese minor returned to campus for this event to accompany some Chinese exchange students on guitar. In addition, a member of the local Chinese community brought a moving Tibetan dance to the stage. Several rounds of question-and-answer highlighted essential historical and cultural knowledge relevant to the festival’s tradition.

Pictured here are club members leading the event’s attendees in song.

Members are, from left, Paul Wang (Business Management), Bo Wang (exchange), Wei Xuan (Geographic Information System), Tess Ren (exchange), Simon Yi (Municipal Engineering), Ruby Huang (exchange), and Mengtian Wu (exchange).

For more information about ESU’s Chinese Club, contact Dr. Shuang Wu, adjunct instructor of Chinese, at swu1@esu.edu.