Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of a celebration event in Belgrade, Serbia, Jan. 17, 2020. The celebration for the Chinese New Year started here on Friday with a bazaar of Chinese arts and handicrafts, and classical music performance. (Xinhua/Shi Zhongyu)
BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The celebration for the Chinese New Year started here on Friday with a bazaar of Chinese arts and handicrafts, and classical music performance.
The New Year Bazaar was opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan park-fortress by Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Chen Bo, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic and Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Goran Vesic.
Ljajic said that the festivities in Serbia will take place for the whole upcoming month, both in Belgrade and Novi Sad, a city in northern Serbia.
Chen said that the new year bazaar is a traditional part of the Spring Festival, and it is the first time that such a Chinese New Year bazaar is held in Serbia.
"Besides the fair and the new year concert, on January 24 we will gather again here at Kalemegdan to celebrate Chinese New Year with the Festival of Light and the fireworks," she said.
In the next three days, the visitors of the Kalemegdan park-fortress in the city center will be able to see Yangjiabu New Year paintings, Chinese knots from Jinan, lantern-making technique, sugar painting(a traditional art using hot liquid sugar to create a variety of figures from famous dramas or operas, or simply animals) as well as to try some of Shandong's culinary delicacies such as noodles.
Later in the evening, at Sava Centre, the China Philharmonic Orchestra which is on tour of Central and Eastern Europe presented the Chinese New Year concert.
In front of thousands of visitors, the orchestra heated up the festive atmosphere with various Chinese and European classical pieces.
