By Hangzheng (Hank) Wang, Photo by Wei Xu

Painted Post, NY - On October 21, CCA co-hosted with Corning Incoporated MTE-ALG group a Chinese Folk Music & Dance Live show at Painted Post Middle School on 6:30 pm. The performance is brought by Nanjing Normal University (NNU) Art Troupe from China, who has hundreds of professional appearances all over the world.

More than 130 CCA members and friends attended the show. During the 90 minutes show, the audiences enjoyed authentic Chinese music from a variety of instruments, including Suona, Dizi, Pipa and Erhu. The dancing team and the soprano also earned a round of applause from the audiences.

This event is one of the performance series of NNU Art Troupe around the United States.

By Hanzheng (Hank) Wang, Photo by Jerry Zhou

Horseheads, NY - Mid-autumn day/Moon festival is one of the most important holidays celebrated in eastern Asian countries. The festival is originated based on the legend of Chang’e, a goodness and master of the moon. The myths associated with Chang'e explain the origin of moon worship during this day. To memorize Chang’e, people get together with family members for dinner and moon cake tasting. Meanwhile, the mid-autumn day is also a celebration of harvest for Chinese farmers. 

In Corning, we celebrated this year’s Moon Festival at the Harris Hill Youth Camp on September 19th. The CCA welcomed more than 200 CCA members and friends in the events. It began with greetings from CCA president Lin Lin, followed by honoring our dedicated teachers from the Corning Chinese School, who made significant contributions in spreading Chinese language and culture to younger generations during the past year. A few new CCA members also made a brief self-introduction and were welcomed to the CCA family.


Authentic Chinese food is always the key component of the party. The CCA prepared Chinese food from local Chinese restaurants as well as local families for our member to enjoy. Lucky members also get boxes of moon cakes as lottery gifts. Additionally, the event was celebrated with lantern word puzzles.