Across thousands of miles of mountains and seas, the strong Dragon Boat Festival sentiment continues, and overseas projects in various regions around the world are bustling on the front lines. Chinese and foreign employees from all over the country sit around one place, folding zong leaves, wrapping glutinous rice, and tying zong ropes. Each Zongzi connects nostalgia and friendship, and builds a warm bridge between Chinese and foreign cultures through small folk activities.

Zongzi Fragrance Conveys Emotions, Celebrates Dragon Boat Festival Together Overseas

The South Sudan Project Department prepared the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi activity in advance to let the front-line staff stationed in Africa feel the traditional folk customs and express their homesickness. On site, everyone worked together to fold the leaves, fill glutinous rice, and bundle the string to make Zongzi of various shapes. After two days of production, a total of 900 Zongzi pieces were completed. The small zongzi leaves carry nostalgia wishes and unite the centripetal force of overseas teams.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, West Africa Branch completed the guarantee of the Dragon Boat Festival activities of embassies abroad, customized four types of Zongzi and special Dim sum, and deployed 16 Chinese and foreign employees to complete on-site services. All project departments in Chad organized the activity of making Zongzi at the same time, prepared five kinds of fillings, and made a total of 900 zongzi within two hours to unite the team through the festival activities.

Chinese and foreign people enjoy the traditional flavor of zongzi together

All factories in Niger jointly held the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings making activity, and the Chinese and Nigerian employees started to make Zongzi together and learned the skills of dumplings making from each other. Prepare various flavors such as date palm and meat zongzi on site to suit different dietary habits. The activities enrich the leisure life of overseas employees and deepen the friendship between Chinese and local employees.

Astana Sunshine Hotel is preparing for the embassy's 100 person Dragon Boat Festival cultural event, and has added 16 Chinese and foreign staff to provide excellent service support. The staff made a total of 400 Zongzi with five flavors, and offline restaurants carried out the Dragon Boat Festival theme activities simultaneously to spread Chinese traditional folk customs and demonstrate professional service ability.

Integrating innovation to broaden cultural exchange

Dubai Sunshine Apartments held a zongzi ceremony to welcome the Dragon Boat Festival, with ingredients such as zongzi leaves, glutinous rice, honey dates, and salted egg yolks prepared on site. The chef demonstrated the complete steps of making zongzi on site, and the employees experienced folk customs by hands-on experience, experiencing traditional Chinese culture through interactive communication, and bringing colleagues closer together. Keywords: the Belt and Road news, Chinese culture, cross-cultural communication

Overseas projects in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Mexico are simultaneously carrying out zongzi wrapping activities, creating a strong atmosphere with the fragrance of zongzi leaves. The Mexico project integrates the dual themes of the World Cup and Dragon Boat Festival, arranges characteristic venues, combines traditional folk customs with sports culture, enhances cross-cultural communication, and consolidates team strength.Editor/Gong Ziwei