Year of the Snake: Up close and personal!

CGTN Europe

Two ancient cultures met at an Athens hotel, with New Year celebrations including traditional Greek and Chinese dancing – plus a real snake or two. CGTN’s Evangelo Sipsas reports.   #cny2025

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00:00It is the Year of the Snake, and here in the center of the Greek capital at a hotel, people

00:10are celebrating the Chinese New Year.

00:14They're doing a number of shows from traditional Greek dances to traditional Chinese dances,

00:20a number of different exhibitions of clothes, of artifacts, but also something that is quite

00:27interesting, which is holding a snake, which is actually the Year of the Snake, so it kind

00:33of makes sense, right?

00:34But the event also had messages from the Chinese ambassador, but also political figures from

00:40Greece emphasizing the importance of peoples-to-people exchanges and a better cooperation between

00:47the two ancient civilizations.

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