On January 11, 2024, the opening ceremony of the 2025 "Happy Spring Festival" Garden Party was held in Phnom Penh. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wenbin and Cambodian Minister of Culture and Arts PHOEURNG SACKONA attended and delivered speeches. the event featured traditional Chinese handicrafts displays, folklore performances, food exhibitions and other activities.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wenbin said the event represents the vision of family reunion, symbolizes a farewell to the past and a greeting to the new one, and praying for good health, and contains the value pursuit of auspiciousness, harmony and happiness. In recent years, the Spring Festival has been respectively officially listed as a UN floating holiday and was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Cambodian friends also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival, including put up spring festival couplets, and dragon and lion dances celebrations everywhere. It can be said that the Spring Festival is a holiday for both Chinese and Cambodian peoples, and an important symbol of friendship between them.

Cambodian Minister of Culture and Arts Cambodian Minister of Culture and Arts PHOEURNG SACKONA spoke highly of Tnaot for hosting this event and thanked all Cambodian and Chinese artists who provided artistic performances to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

She pointed out that Cambodia-China cultural exchange project and the 2025 Spring Festival New Year celebrations with the theme of "Happy Year of the Snake, Cambodia Celebrates Together" are new milestone to the deepening friendship and cultural ties between the peoples of Cambodia and China. The Year of the Snake symbolizes wisdom, flexibility and transformation in the Chinese lunar calendar. This event is not only a great celebration of Chinese culture, but also a reflection of cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the two countries. In this new year, the department will continue to work together in various fields and deepen the friendship and well-being of the two nations’ peoples.

On the occasion , she also said, China “Spring Festival” was inscribed as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, she congratulated the Chinese government and all Chinese people for the success. She also thanked the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia for its continued support and coordination for various activities held in Cambodia and China, which enabled the two countries to successfully hold many events together.

At the event, Ms. Han Doris, General Manager of Tnaot, the organizer, thanked the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia, the Ministry of Culture and Art, the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Tourism of Cambodia for their strong support and guidance, and thanked the sponsors for their great assistance. She looked back the efforts made by Tnaot in the past year to expand the cultural influence of China and Cambodia through cultural exchange activities and cultural communication between China and Cambodia, and expressed the hope that in 2025, with the "Happy Spring Festival" as a new starting point, Tnaot will work with more partners to spread the deep cultural connotations of Chinese and Cambodian more widely and further.

It should be noted that the garden party was held at Chip Mong Mall from January 11 to 12, kicking off the 2025 "Happy Spring Festival" series of activities. The Chinese red, fortune trees, lanterns, red envelopes, and Spring Festival couplets filled the scene with the peaceful and joyful atmosphere of the New Year, and Overseas Chinese and their local friends joined the garden party.

Many tourists gathered in front of the stage in advance just to grab a good viewing site. In addition to lion dance, many intangible cultural heritage skills such as face changing and tea skills will be performed in the event.

The brilliant Chinese Spring Festival performances and intangible cultural heritage experience stunned the Cambodian people. everyone applauded and praised, and the atmosphere of the Year of the Snake was joyful and harmonious.

attendees can also wear exquisite Hanfu and Khmer traditional costumes freely and take photos. The red envelope wall area also attracted many people to write down their New Year wishes, exchange New Year red envelopes, and receive blessings.

This garden party with interesting theme, featuring immersive cultural experiences and performances to enrich the event with traditional Chinese culture. Oversea Chinese and Cambodian people are sure to have more fun than ever at this unique and captivating Chinese New Year’s event in Cambodia.