{"id":4718,"date":"2023-10-03T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:21:18","slug":"isco-celebrates-the-chinese-mid-autumn-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/03\/isco-celebrates-the-chinese-mid-autumn-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"ISCO Celebrates the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 The International Student Cultural Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TroyISCO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISCO<\/a>) hosted an event to celebrate Chinese culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese festival that has a very long history in China,\u201d said Xiameng Zhang, an international student from China. \u201cIt\u2019s a traditional festival. The most important thing for Chinese people is family reunion. We will eat moon cake together and have dinner with our families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival through music, traditions, and food.\u00a0 Zhang did a presentation of the festival to \u201clet the students know more about traditional Chinese culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event also featured a musical performance of a Chinese song. In addition, students could volunteer to participate in a traditional dragon dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI got to participate in the dragon dance,\u201d said Haley Morgan, ISCO executive member. \u201cIt was super fun to run around and run into everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food was served in the form of tea and hand-made dumplings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morgan said, \u201cThe dumplings were my favorite part. They were so good!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the importance of family and togetherness. It\u2019s important to keep culture like this alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really important to celebrate this festival for Chinese people because family is very important,\u201d Zhang continued. \u201cOur Mid-Autumn Festival is the time that we reunite with our family, so that\u2019s very important in our tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina is all the way across the globe from us, so it\u2019s hard to find a better way for us to know the culture and be introduced to it,\u201d said Morgan. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have ISCO doing this and bringing it to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The International Student Cultural Organization (ISCO) hosted an event to celebrate Chinese culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese festival that has a very long history in China,\u201d said Xiameng Zhang, an international student from China. \u201cIt\u2019s a traditional festival. The most important thing for Chinese people is family reunion. 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