2022 Spring Festival Gala for Chinese Students at USC Celebrating the New Year and Blessing the Beijing Winter Olympics

Los Angeles, January 31 2022 – USC Chinese Students and Scholars Association (USC-CSSA) held Spring Festival Gala celebrating Spring Festival on January 30th, 2022 in USC Bovard Auditorium. This is the only in-person Spring Festival Gala for international Chinese students in the Greater Los Angeles area after two tumultuous weeks of online learning. The heart-moving Spring Festival Gala was planned, directed and performed by international Chinese students has been enthusiastically sought after by the students. When the international students held a group overseas to celebrate the Spring Festival, they also sent their best wishes for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Gala features various kinds of stage performances, The Spring Festival Gala brings together USC students from all backgrounds to celebrate traditional Chinese culture through various forms of performances including vocal, musical, performing arts, Chinese zither, folk dances, pop musicals, also talk show, modern dances, and stand-up comedy in the light of one of the major national holidays in China, the Spring Festival, said the Gala director Joy and Betty, both from USC Marshall Business School, all performers are students.

Before the performance of the gala, representatives from various colleges on campus, student associations on campus and parents from all over China sent the best New Year wishes to the audience through video. This part was both pleasant and tearful. Jiang Xinyi and Liu Ajin, the co-chairs of USC-CSSA 2022 of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association of the University of Southern California, delivered speeches to thank the team and the performers for their heavy planning and rehearsal tasks during their busy schedules. And through the evening party, we greeted the nearly 5,000 Chinese students in the school. “After two years of the epidemic, the much-anticipated Beijing Winter Olympics will soon be held in China. We are here to cheer for all the Olympic athletes who are far away!”

The party kicked off with the original song of “Wu Wang Chuan” by TEA & R Gufeng Band, which combined traditional and modern. The talk show of Ai Jessie, who had lived in Beijing for eight years, allowed the students to experience the fluent Chinese of “foreigners”. The foundation of Chinese cross talk. Zhang Benran and Tao Chuyu’s songs are mixed together; and the original works of “Hot Summer Nights” and “Do You Want More” by three classmates including Guan Furui, Zhang Jieze, Guo Shuangjia, etc.; TEAM X’s dance mix “Time Travel” , Jay Chou’s classic song mixes brought by TROGONS A CAPELLA; CRESCENDO Music Club’s song mixes; Su Xinfei and Ou Zhening’s songs played and sang “Low Tide Period”; as many programs as possible in a short time in various mixes It is brought to the audience and is in line with the fast-paced life of young people.

EASTERN CHAMBER’s traditional Chinese musical instrument performances “Elephant King’s Journey” and “Youth That Year” have a lingering rhyme. Feng Yichi’s talk show recreated the humorous scene of the gathering of international students on the streets of Shanghai in a delicate and realistic manner, and won the international students’ laughter. Gate 5 Drama Club’s sketch “Line Up” extracts the details of real life. Liu Zuye and Song Yuhang’s male and female chorus “My Motherland” and “Unforgettable Tonight”, although it is a classic that has been sung for many years, but as the finale, the singing still made the international students on the scene feel emotional and sigh.

The warm interaction on and off the stage in the evening party is a unique feature of the Spring Festival Gala for international students. Seeing familiar classmates performing on stage, the classmates shouted their names and cheered loudly, constantly raising the atmosphere of the scene. The actors on the stage made a “sudden” “confession”. At the same time, the host encouraged students who wanted to make a confession to go to the stage to make a public “confession”, creating a good atmosphere. The students under the stage turned on their mobile phone lights and waved to cheer.

Wang Xinyi, the general director of the party, is a senior at the University of Southern California’s business school, and this year is her fourth year of service at CSSA; the deputy director, Sun Ningfei Betty, from Shenyang, Liaoning, is now a junior at the University of Southern California’s business school. She once directed Niu. Online Spring Festival Gala and Mid-Autumn Festival Gala in 2020. The two talented international directors ensured the success of the evening with their rich experience and seamless cooperation.

Qian Tianhui, Chairman of CSSA 2022 of Southwest Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Li Hongyu, Chairman of UCR-CSSA 2022, University of California, Riverside Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Zhang Guyu, Chairman of USC-CSSA 2019, American Chinese Youth Ren Xiangdong, the president of the federation, said after the performance: TROGONS A CAPELLA and Gate 5 are the annual responsibilities of the Spring Festival Gala. The program of the gala integrates different cultural elements and presents it in the form of vigorous elaboration by overseas young students. The beauty of the fusion of traditional Chinese culture.

Many of the audience on that day were international students who had just enrolled in the late stage of the epidemic. They fully affirmed the courage and leadership shown by USC-CSSA to actively communicate with the school and get approval to hold the offline Spring Festival Gala; , It is a great joy to be able to watch this Spring Festival Gala full of joy, celebration and close to the life of international students on campus.

The Lunar New Year is undoubtedly the most important festival for all oversea Chinese students. Although the celebrations vary from place to place, students from each universities, as well as local Chinese community, spend the evening watching Chunwan. The Spring Festival Gala produced by USC-CSSA. It is one of the premier celebration events on southern California Chines student’s entertainment calendar each year.

For many Chinese students, the term Spring Festival Gala creates a magical feeling. It triggers nostalgic memories of when family members gathered around their TV on Chinese New Year’s Eve.