The mayor held the student T-stage catwalk, and the students confessed with tears... On August 23, the fourth season, “Overseas famous students entered Jinhua Ancient Village” ended in Zhifu Village, Huangdian Town, Lanxi City, from Germany, Switzerland, 45 overseas participants from France, Israel, Laos, India, Bulgaria, Poland, South Africa and other countries spent the 14-day “Jinhua Story” experience tour.

“Overseas famous students enter Jinhua Ancient Village” is the first in the country. It aims to promote the “ going out ” of the city by “please come in”. It has successfully held four seasons, with 163 overseas students from 27 countries. Into the three ancient villages of Zhuangyuan, Siping, Wuyi Yuyuan and Lanxi Zhiyu in Jinhua City, through the national “home+” model, they lived with the villagers and felt the profoundness of Chinese traditional culture.

The center camp of the event, Zhifu Village, is known as the “Typical Museum of Ancient Chinese Residential Buildings” and “The Living Stone of Ancient Buildings”. It is known as “Jitang Yijie Ancient Street Stack, Jiangnan Lijiang Zhiyi Village”.

On August 12-23, during the event, 45 overseas famous students were freely combined according to their own specialties and interests, divided into three groups: diary, interview, architectural art, history and culture, folk art, and tourist attractions. Record the Zhifu in your own eyes and in your heart in different ways, and tell the "Jinhua Story" to the world.

Martin from Germany is in the interview group. His interviews include bamboo, straw artist, master of Taijiquan and drama actors who play the Monkey King. The traditional cultural charm that he learned from it makes him feel Chinese culture more and more. Broad and profound.

During the event, Jinhua Foreign Affairs Office, Lanxi Foreign Affairs Office and other organizers carefully designed overseas students DIY fashion show, Zhifu water rice cake LOGO design competition, international basketball game, overseas students learn to sing drama, Jinhua famous snack Grand Prix, Overseas famous students have had Chinese-style birthdays and innovative activities such as eating dumplings with “home+”, which makes overseas students happy and unsatisfied.

Indian student Riya, speaking on behalf of overseas students at the closing ceremony, said: "If I leave with the same thing as Zhifu, I choose the beautiful memories that I have with everyone. For example, every night with my roommate, and German friends. Compared with the amount of alcohol, playing basketball with Chinese friends, trying novel Indian food, discussing marriage and life with South African friends, dancing with everyone, PK karaoke, dancing together. In this two weeks of energy, I not only touched Chinese culture, but also I have learned a lot of Chinese, like 'thank you', 'unwelcome', 'auntie', 'uncle', etc. Of course, not only Chinese, but also the language of other overseas participants, German, French, etc. We also fell in love with my father. The hearty dishes that my mother made. Maybe after we go back, this will be one of the things they miss most, and I really hope that I can go through these days again."

Lanxi is a textile city. The textile industry is the traditional advantage industry of Lanxi. There are 1658 textile enterprises in the city. Last year, the national textile industry downturn, Lanxi textile adverse economic gains across the board, the regulatory output value exceeded 30.9 billion yuan, 2.1 billion meters fabric production leisure, orbit the earth 53 laps. At the closing ceremony, Lanxi Textile collided with Jiuguo Creative, Vice Mayor of Jinhua City, Sun Rongyan, Jinhua Foreign Affairs Office Director Zhang Hong, Lanxi Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary, Mayor Cai Yan, Lanxi Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee and Propaganda Department Minister Fan Weidong held overseas students, overseas students DIY used the Lanxi textile design to walk the show, and the “International Fan” was presented.

It is reported that Jinhua Ancient Village is rich in resources, and there are 195 historical and cultural villages. It is called “the hometown of ancient Chinese villages”. These ancient villages are scattered in the land of Bagua, which is the traditional culture, ecological concept and ecological thought of Jinhua Bagua. Living fossil. How to make the colorful and unique ancient villages into Jinhua's "golden business card" has been the efforts of the Jinhua Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for many years. "Why don't let foreign friends tell the story of Jinhua, let them tell the world with their own experience: Jinhua has a living ancient village, China has a living ancient village." In this way, there is a nationally unique "overseas famous school students into the Jinhua ancient village" They gathered Jinhua from all over the world, lived with the villagers, and had deep feelings with the Chinese father and mother.

Jinhua Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary, Mayor and Military and Civilian Representative Jinhua Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government warmly welcome the world to like Chinese culture, especially the students and friends who like Chinese rural culture to Jinhua. He said that Jinhua is a historical and cultural city. In the past, Jinhua undertook eight counties such as Lanxi, so it was called the Eight Diagrams Land. The long history of more than 2,200 years has given birth to Jinhua's gossip culture. The 195 ancient villages scattered on the land of Gossip are the DNAs that record the cultural codes of the "gossip". In the smoke and deep ancient lanes of these ancient villages, you can see the nostalgia that has been flowing for thousands of years. The purpose of our "Overseas Famous School Students Entering Jinhua Ancient Village" is to open a window for folk diplomacy and provide a big stage for everyone to promote the "gossip" culture to go abroad and go to the world to help these ancient villages better. Use and protection to achieve inheritance and development.

"Overseas famous schools" have opened up new avenues for private diplomacy and have received wide attention. In June this year, Mr. Li Zhaoxing, the president of the China Public Diplomacy Association and the former Foreign Minister of the State, fully affirmed the Jinhua field visit and personally served as the honorary advisor of the project. Li Zhaoxing's praise of China is a good example of the protection and utilization of traditional Chinese villages. It is a good example of cultural “ Belt and Road ” and folk diplomacy. Feng Xiaocai, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the China Traditional Village Protection Expert Committee, also praised the event and was invited to Jinhua Yiwu to attend the China Traditional Village Protection and Development Conference. He was pleased to be active in the Jinhua Daily report collection. Personal inscription: "Into the ancient village to study history, appreciate the tradition and love the folk."

The activities achieved remarkable results. In the year when the project was launched, Jinhua City added 10 friendly and friendly cities, and officially signed 5 cities for friendly exchange relations. The number of new friendly cities has been the highest in the calendar year.