Overseas students celebrate traditional Chinese Xiaonian festival in N China

STORY: Overseas students celebrate traditional Chinese Xiaonian festival in N China SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 2, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:20 LOCATION: CANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of overseas student participating the celebration event 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): YISHANI, Sri Lankan student 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): TUSHAR, Indian student 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): PENG ZHIQING, Director of Teaching Division, Cangzhou Central Hospital STORYLINE: Chinese Xiaonian Festival, also known as the Kitchen God Festival, falls on Feb 2 this year. Ten international students from Sri Lanka, Canada, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh and other countries celebrated the traditional Chinese festival in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province on Friday. Usually a week before the Lunar New Year, the festival is considered to be the prologue of the Spring Festival The Chinese usually start to make preparations for the Spring Festival on this day. The students joined their teachers in making d