The Eve before Christmas: Ethiopian Confucius Institute Tell Chinese Guangong Story
News from World Guangong Culture Net: The eve before 2019 Christmas, cultural scholar Zhu Zhengming led five “great persons” from cross-straits to the African land after convoying Guangong’s statue to antarctic peninsula.
Plateau Capital in the Sunrise ----- Addis Ababa.
In the capital of Ethiopia, the five “great persons” visited the Confucius Institute of Addis Ababa University. The African plateau of more than 2,400 meters above sea level, Ethiopia, is the source of the Nile River, the hometown of many marathon champions around the world, and is rich in coffee and beauties.
The five “great persons “in the capital of Ethiopia, from the right: Dong Qiushun, Zhu Zhengming, Wang Gang, Li Xiang, and Dong Heming
The Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, equivalent to Beijing University or Tsinghai University in China, is located in the Sadist Kilo Avenue, the northeast of Ethiopian capital, full of green trees and beautiful flowers. Various African students gather here, talking about the traditions and future development and their academic work in harmony.
Zhu Zhengming led his team to the Confucius Institute of Addis Ababa University, receiving warm welcome. Gong Yaonan, a girl growing up in Shanxi at the eastern bank of the Yellow River, comes from Tianjin University of Technology and Education. She told us that the Confucius Institute of Addis Ababa University has been founded about eleven years with two headquarters in the capital now, and 9 teaching sub-departments scattered in nine cities of Ethiopia, with a total of about 30 Chinese teachers.
Gong Yaonan(middle), the Chinese teacher in the Confucius Institute of Addis Ababa University, and her students
In the Confucius Institute of Addis Ababa University, Zhu Zhengming told students the story of Chinese sages, Confucius for arts and Guan Yu for martial arts. Zhu Zhengming, Wang gang and other members gave the picture of group images of Guangong Chinese Guangong of Five Continents, Gathering at the Mountain Everest to the teachers and students here, 2020 single-page calendar Beautiful China, Auspicious Year of Rat, as well as some antimalarial medicine and some Chinese cultural goods.
Zhu Zhengming (third) told students the story of Chinese sages, Confucius for arts and Guan Yu for martial arts, giving the picture of group images of Guangong and the single-page calendar Beautiful China
Mrs. Gong introduced that during the six years of operation period of the Confucius Institute in Addis Ababa University, Chinese has been included in the formal undergraduate education in Addis Ababa University, with 109 graduates. The training and formal education of this Confucius Institute has been rechargeable, entering the market. Many of the students in the Confucius Institute have trade contacts with China. Now, there are about more than 150 countries founding Confucius Institute.
Students of Addis Ababa University gathered around the boulevard to talk about the traditions and future development, as well as their academic work.
This is the ninth time for Zhu Zhengming entering Africa. The pyramids on the banks of the Nile, the exceedingly fascinating and charming Maputo, the Cape of Good Hope at the end of South Africa, and the Seychelles floating in the Indian Ocean all make Zhu Zhengming enjoy himself so much as to forget to leave. Wherever he went, he would tell Chinese stories to overseas Chinese, and promote the thriving of Chinese Guangong in more places.
A mother accompanied the children to enjoy the sun freely on the street of the plateau capital.