{"id":5359,"date":"2024-02-21T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2024-02-21T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:24:29","slug":"international-students-celebrate-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/21\/international-students-celebrate-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"International students celebrate Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Tuesday night, cultures combined when the Chinese Student and Scholar Association hosted a lunar new year celebration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Tonight is the Chinese New Year or you can call it the Lunar New Year. So all the people from different countries gather here to celebrate with us,&#8221; said Director of China Operations Silvia\u00a0Li. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration is a way for students who are farther away from home to celebrate an important time in their culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The students can not go home for the festival because of they different sessions,&#8221; Li explained. &#8220;We want to do this for them so they can have a celebration while away from their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From dancing dragons to singing to tasting all kinds of Chinese dishes, not only did Chinese students celebrate, they also shared the experience with non-Chinese students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For American and international students this is the chance to know all about Chinese culture and a little about how the Chinese celebrate the new year,&#8221; Li told TrojanVision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Year of the Dragon is believed to symbolize power, good luck, and success. Beginning Jan. 29, 2025, the new year will transition into the Year of the Snake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year of the snake is said to symbolize malevolence and mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Tuesday night, cultures combined when the Chinese Student and Scholar Association hosted a lunar new year celebration. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight is the Chinese New Year or you can call it the Lunar New Year. So all the people from different countries gather here to celebrate with us,&#8221; said Director of China Operations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/21\/international-students-celebrate-lunar-new-year\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1426],"topics":[12],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-chinese-students-and-scholar-association","topics-international"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}