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College Life - Chinese Day February 2011

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• EBC celebrates the Chinese Spring Festival with a day of cultural events
• Students watch a performance of a traditional Chinese dance by the Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine
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• As well as watching performances, the students got a chance to experience some Chinese culture for themselves
• Here the boys learn the movements to the dance of the Long Fist
• Some even got the chance to try on the lion costume
• They found dancing in it wasnt as easy as it looked
• Dances that draw on Chinese martial arts were popular amongst the boys
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• Chinese dancers use their costumes to accentuate their movements
• The Spring Festival marks the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit
• A group of Green Ties learn the the second movement of a Tiger - hunting
• Another group of Green Ties get to sample the anti-oxidant benefits of green tea and take part in a tea ceremony
• The tea drinkers learnt the etiquette of Chinese tea drinking
• Students also take part in a calligraphy class and learn to write some basic Chinese characters
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• The team responsible for creating another successful Chinese Day take a bow

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