The Confucius Institute at the University of Guyana (CIUG) celebrates its 10TH Anniversary today, having been inaugurated on May 19, 2014, in an official ceremony involving the President of Guyana and the Ambassador of China. A culturally rich and very colourful anniversary ritual will mark the occasion at 4.00 pm today on the UG Turkeyen Campus.
To mark this, the CIUG presents in these pages representative samples of Chinese literature – a literature that is strong in tradition and distinctive cultural characteristics that can be found in its various forms from the very ancient creations up to prevailing contemporary varieties. Both the poem “How Rare the Moon” and the story “Yugong Moves Mountains” demonstrate the delightful ring of these elements handed down from a very old literary culture. This includes the scribal poetry and the wide range of traditional narrative tales.