Oregon State University students celebrated the Year of the Ox this week in honor of the Chinese New Year. The OSU Hong Kong Student Association hosted various events and activities in the Memorial Union Ballroom which included calligraphy, red envelope art, fortune telling and more (and yes, there was food!). In the video below, meet OSU student Noemi Wada, Co-President of the Hong Kong Student Association. I had the opportunity to meet with her during the festivites and she talked to me about HKSA and the event. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us, Noemi! If any readers would like to contact the HKSA, please find their contact information here.
Also, wait for mark :47 for the Office of Admissions Recruit Team student worker Stanley Yu telling fortunes! I’ll have Stanley write about his thoughts on the event and the new year and have it posted in the near future. Stay tuned.
The Chinese Association of OSU also held festivities earlier in the week for China Night 2009. See more about the events hosted by the Chinese Association of OSU by visiting here. (Any readers have any photos or videos from the event? Leave a comment with a link and I’ll post them here!)
–mko
Gung Hay Fat Choy..
Happy New Year..
and btw.. excellent article..
It’s weird that the Chinese newyear is different from the rest of the world!
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Hope we can have a better year this 2009. Lets see what President Obama can do to US and to the world.
It’s really cool to see such a great turnout there. OSU should be very proud about how the student body is embracing diversity and various cultures.
Happy Chinese New Year to every chinese in oregon state students. I guess they will miss their family while celebrating their new year in a foreign country. Do they have fire crackers and fireworks display during the celebrations? Chinese love to have fire crackers during their new year as they believe that it will ward off evil spirits and to scare off a demon called “Nian”.
Also former yugoslavian countries have diffrent New Year. Happy new year to Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, etc
I was in hongkong at the time of the chinese new year. It was amazing.
Yea, I am a watch wholesaler and import watches from China and Chinese New Year is a big deal there and people there have off for like an entire week or something
Can you tell me at what date do u celebrate chinese new year?
Chinese new year is really great. Once a time I was there, and it was fantastic.
Very Neat! I am actually planning a trip to China soon and I can’t wait, this seems like an exciting event.
In San Francisco Chinese New Year takes over the entire downtown area with a parade. I love going to this show as there are thousands of people and lots of wonderful Chinese culture. Chinese new year was January 26, 2009 this year.
Chinese is very good celebration. I hope the new year they will do you good.
I love Chinese New Year – my family celebrates it every year. I enjoy the fireworks, drumming and dragon dancing. Excellent post!
WHAT fun! I love Chinese New Year – this video was really interesting, to see the students sharing so much of their culture. We teach our daughter (7) about different holidays around the world – she likes Chinese New Year best (maybe because of the red envelopes?).
Every year we take a couple day off for this!
This was a lot of fun I can only recommend taking the time to enjoy this yearly event!
Ahh yes! The Lunar New Year! It’s so refreshing to see that the OSU student body takes the time to embrace this culture and celebrate this wonderful holiday.
@Foraj No they don’t.
I guess it’s cool to participate in a celebration like this because it’s different from the Western culture. This is a great way to get to know with some other tradition, which is, in my opinion, a great thing.
I love celebrating Chinese New year. It’s different from our culture, and this is why the US is a great place to live. Diversity is what helps us grow!
Chinese New Year is a fantastic holiday, second only to the Moon Festival. What a great article!
I am of Chinese decent and cannot wait to celebrate this holiday again. Thank you for the wonderful post!