On April 2, the "Our Festival: Qingming" event, one of the series of "Handshake with the World·Listen to the Voices of Wenzhou", was held in Wenzhou Moral Museum. The event also attracted more than 10 international friends from Britain, Nepal, Zimbabwe and other countries. Listening to custom stories, learning paper-cutting, tasting green dumpling, making kites, reading ancient poems, visiting the moral museum...Every link of the event made the local Chinese and foreigners on the spot feel the cultural thickness of the Qingming solar term.

In order to let everyone better learn the Qingming culture, a folk culture exhibition area was set up at the open-pit of Wenzhou Moral Museum to demonstrate traditional paper-cutting, kite-making, green-dumpling-wrapping, etc., so that everyone can feel the traditional culture at fingertip, taste the Qingming delicacies. The present foreigners gathered around the stall to learn the custom. Bishinu from Nepal said: "I really like the part of folk custom experience. It allows me to experience the custom of Qingming, one of the 24 solar terms, at close range. It is of extraordinary significance."

Read ancient poems , learn the Qingming culture

On the second floor of the Wenzhou Moral Museum, a special Sino-foreign cultural exchange event - “Recitation of Poetry of Spring” was held. Sumayyha from Mauritius and Alex from the United Kingdom recited 1 Chinese ancient poem respectively. Craig from the United States recited English poems about spring (Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare). Sumayyha said, “It’s so special to experience the Qingming culture by reading poems. Chinese and Western cultures are intertwined, and the collision of Chinese and English bilingualism produces wonderful sparks. It’s really interesting!”