2022 SW and UCI CSSA Mid-Autumn Festival Gala: a family feast for Chinese Students

by admin · Published October 4, 2022 · Updated October 4, 2022

Irvine, CA (October 04, 2022) /LAPost – Co-hosted by Southwest Chinese Students and Scholars Association (SW-CSSA) and UCI CSSA, 2022 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, also known as QiuWan in Chinese, began at 7:30pm on October 3^rd and lasted over 2 hours in Barclay Theatre of UC Irvine, presenting a creative and excellent extravaganza to about 600 Chinese students from all over the Southern California Universities.

Li Chunlin, Deputy Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, Education Counselor Ming Tingxi, Education Consuls Wang Qun and Guo Jin were invited to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with students.

Li Chunlin, Deputy Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles

In his speech, Deputy Consul General Li Chunlin said that when he came to the party, he deeply felt the ardent affection of the Chinese student for the home country. Keep the fiery emotions, no matter where you are, you can contribute to the development of your hometown and the friendship between China and the United States. At the same time, he said that the consulate-general would wholeheartedly provide services for the students and provide a strong guarantee for the health and safety of studying abroad.

The gala was divided into dance, rap, diabolo, stand-up comedy, magic show and acapella. The gala featured an all-student cast.

Dance: Attention by Immortals

Diabolo by Andy Lu

Rap: Hometown Hero by Hedrick Corp UCLA

Stand-up comedy by Jesse Appell

Magic show by Jeffrey Wang

Rapper Jin Qian

M.A.D Dance troupe

Acapella by USC Trogons A Cappella

Gala hosts

Peter Man

From left: Tiga Li, Sandy Fang, Haozhe Xu, Sky Qian

The chief producer of the gala is SWCSSA chairman Peter Man, SWCSSA president Sky Qian, UCICSSA chairman Haozhe Xu as the general director, former SWCSSA chairwoman Sandy Fang as the executive producer, and UCRCSSA former chairman Tiga Li as the general BD. According to them, the gala was planned, directed and performed by Chinese students, and the participants and performers came from universities in Southern California. The gala, which took two months to prepare, also received the full support of CSSA from universities in the southwestern United States.

For thousands of years, the full moon and the reunion have been the Chinese consistent themes of the Mid-Autumn Festival, For Chinese students studying in the local area, the Mid-Autumn Festival has a special meaning of homesick.

As an annual event that unites Chinese students, local universities CSSA’ Mid-Autumn Festival Gala have attracted widespread attention from Chinese students and local Chinese communities.