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Despite the lack of budget, the company of martial artists on a transatlantic scene and the Wushu Association of Mexico City, who celebrates Chinese culture in Mexico, join to carry out, this Sunday, January 30, the First Cultural FestivalChinese New Year on CDMX.This free event will offer a program that includes Wushu exhibitions (adequate term for the Kung FU), Chi Kung and the typical dances of León and Dragon, in addition to calligraphy workshops and some martial arts, which will take place of 12: 00 to 5:00 p.m., in the green areas of the National Arts Center (CENART).

"Never before had such an event.The Chinese embassy makes its celebration because the new year is one of the most important and traditional parties, although it is not in the same tone because we are integrating many things.The Chinese neighborhood also makes a celebration with dances, but they do not make workshops, martial arts, or calligraphy.This was a creative impulse to unite many artistic and cultural lines of China and reflect not only towards the party.It will be the first edition and we have all the intention and enthusiasm to continue producing, ”says Yaride Rizk, a member of the transatlantic company and coordinator of this festival.

In conversation with Chronicle, Yaride explains that the main engine of this festival is to share to the general public a part of the Chinese culture that considers deep and “that has greatly nourished Mexicans, is a great wealth that has managed to preserve itself: everythingThat we are going to expose are millenary practices, it is the reproduction and preservation of something historical ”.

He adds that the Chinese worldview has several similarities with pre-Hispanic Mexico, such as the relationship with nature, the vision of the mystical and the relationship with the natural cycles of life.

“In Mexico there were martial dances that disappeared with the conquest.I also learned that acupuncture existed with fish thorns and in the vision of life, natural, body and health there are meeting points, which China has managed to preserve while in Mexico sometimes you have to go to communities far removedTo be able to perceive it ”, considers.

Caligraphy and Wushu.

In the framework of the festival, 3 calligraphy workshops will be taught, with a duration of 20 minutes each, at 1:00 p.m., 14:00 and 15:00 hours;4 Wushu workshops (Kung Fu is a western term), 20 minutes c/one, between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m..Yaride Rizk indicates that the goal is to open windows.

“Do not teach anything in itself, so that someone really understands are years of process, but the main intention is to generate windows where there is perhaps there is a misunderstanding of martial arts and very little understanding about calligraphy, opening the subject for those who do not know this world".

“There will also be a Chi Kung workshop, they are more breathing exercises, soft movements and fluids, it has to do with the cultivation of health and energy.What we want to achieve with Wushu workshops is that they know the basic form, there are 5 basic positions to articulate, ”he reports.

He points out that martial arts are multifunctional, they began as war art, but when it was obsolete they adopted many different dimensions: sports, health, human development, artistic expression and personal defense.

“Beijing opera takes a lot of martial arts, they are part of their fundamental training, many movements of the pieces are expressed with martial movements.My company, a fair transatlantic is the fusion of martiality with dance and contemporary dyes, ”.

He comments that, while Western thought focuses on action and doing, Chinese thought and action has to do with contemplation.In that sense, Yaride points out that calligraphy is interesting because it has to do with that philosophy: “You cannot start painting if you are not in a meditative state.The preparation to take a brush is through breathing practices and is a poetic ”.

"I think that's why they are arts that I think are not going to disappear because you not only talk about movement, but about deep human things," he adds.

THE YEAR OF THE TIGER.

The end of cycle rituals are important processes of human beings and, in Chinese mysticism, every year enters with a different animal.

“The beginning of the pandemic took the year of the rat, which is a carrier of diseases even in the Chinese zodiac.This year comes the water tiger and part of the symbol is the end of the evils, the entrance to a new process with courage, boldness and effort, ”says Yaride Rizk, a member of the transatlantic company and coordinator of the First Cultural Festival of the New YearChinese in CDMX.

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"Everything has been for wills, we have no budget, the community joined to create the event," says Yaride Rizk, a member of the Transatlantic Company and Festival Coordinator.