Budapest celebrates 200th birthday of Petofi with "Chinese-Hungarian poetic dialogue"

STORY: Budapest celebrates 200th birthday of Petofi with "Chinese-Hungarian poetic dialogue" DATELINE: March 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:56 LOCATION: Budapest CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Chinese-Hungarian poetic dialogue 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI ZHEN, Literary translator and researcher of Petofi 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Hungarian): KLARA ZOMBORY, Hungarian sinologist and literary translator STORYLINE: Literary experts from Hungary and China commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian poet Sandor Petofi in Budapest on Thursday. The Chinese-Hungarian poetic dialogue was jointly organized by the China Cultural Center in Budapest and the Petofi Literary Museum. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI ZHEN, Literary translator and researcher of Petofi "Pedofi is a foreign poet that the Chinese people are very familiar with. China introduced Petofi's poems relatively early. The first of his works was introduced to China in 1907." SOUNDBITE 2 (Hungarian): KLARA ZOMBORY, Hungarian sinologist and lite