2025-01-29
27 分钟Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story, this is the point.
This year, 2025 marks the year of the snake, the six animal sign in the Chinese zodiac.
For Chinese people around the world, it's the most important holiday these days,
during which we take stock of the past year and utter the new one in style.
But how do people in Taiwan celebrate the spring festival?
What customs are shared by people across the streets?
What are some of the unique differences?
How has popular culture from both sides influenced each other over the past decades?
Welcome to part one of a special edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin,
coming to you from the heart of Beijing to usher in the year of the snake together.
I'm pleased to be joined by two students from Taiwan,
a mainland scholar on popular culture and an American scholar who celebrated his first Chinese New Year on the island.
So please welcome Su Weiqi, a student of the Human Resource Management at Rimming University of China,
and Zhang Zhongqi, a student of law at China University of Political Science and Law.
Tan Ji-meng,
Professor of Film Studies at the Beijing Center Program of the University of International Business and Economics,
and joining us online from Bangkok.
David Moser, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Beijing Capital Normal University.
The warmest welcome to all of you.
What a pleasure.