Celebrate the establishment of the Kaiping Mutual Aid Association in Alberta; set a new record for local overseas Chinese community gatherings (picture) article cover image
News/Community Wire/Archive/Jun 10, 2011
Legacy archive / noindex

Celebrate the establishment of the Kaiping Mutual Aid Association in Alberta; set a new record for local overseas Chinese community gatherings (picture)

Republished with permission

Celebrate the establishment of the Kaiping Mutual Aid Association of Alberta; set a new record for local overseas Chinese community gatherings (picture) Reported by Zhen Shuoqin Congratulations again...

Local families

Happy Kaiping Township, happy friends of Kaiping! The singing and dancing lions congratulate you, the peacock opens its tail and shines, how wonderful it is, the delicious snacks are wrapped in rice dumplings, the gold and silver round lottery tickets are here, I hope you win and good luck. (Hoo ho!) (Kaiping Jiafang Song) The gongs and drums sound, and the dance begins. On the afternoon of June 5, when more than 300 people attended the event held at Fengcheng Restaurant to celebrate the establishment of the Kaiping Mutual Aid Association, the president of the association, the old cultural man Zhen Shuoqin, sang this folk song in Kaiping dialect as a welcome speech. The honorary president, Guan Zongren, who is in his 80s, was in During his speech, he presented a gift to this event: donated ten large yuan for the lottery. When Yu Wenjin, the honorary advisor of the association, a senior overseas Chinese leader, took the stage, he held up a rice dumpling and used rice dumpling leaves, rice dumplings and rice dumplings as metaphors to express his wish for the leaders, board of directors and members of the association to be harmonious and united. Deng Chaoju, consultant of the association, chairman of the Phoenix Federation of Overseas Chinese Associations and a native of Kaiping, gave a speech on the stage. He hoped that the association would serve as an outstanding group among local Chinese overseas Chinese associations and play a leading role in the activities of overseas Chinese associations.

Sources and usage

This piece is republished or synchronized with permission and keeps a link back to the original source.

Editorial tags

Community WireArchiveRepublished with permission