China News of SilkRoadNewsAgency, January 3, 2026 – On the 18th day of the opening of the 12th Belt and Road International Day · Silkworm God's Day and the Global Chinatown "Belt and Road" New Year Celebration, Chen Entian, Chairman of the Global Chinatown "Belt and Road" New Year Celebration Organizing Committee, returned to China and arrived in Chaozhou, Guangdong. He inspected the protection and inheritance of local intangible cultural heritage and released *Letter to Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Worldwide*, which was warmly received by local residents.
During his inspection in Chaozhou, Chen Entian also had friendly exchanges with several local inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. Among them, Kang Huifang, a representative inheritor of national-level intangible cultural heritage (Chao Embroidery) and China's first Master of Embroidery Art, presented her meticulously created Chao Embroidery work *Year After Year Abundance* to the Global Chinatown "Belt and Road" New Year Celebration Organizing Committee. The work takes carp as the main subject, supplemented by traditional auspicious patterns such as lotus flowers and auspicious clouds.
Carp symbolize "year after year abundance" and "auspiciousness and prosperity", while lotus flowers represent "purity and elegance" and "endless vitality". The entire work integrates the unique gold and silver thread embroidery and three-dimensional embroidery techniques of Chao Embroidery, with bright colors and exquisite craftsmanship, showing a strong Lingnan cultural characteristics and artistic appeal. The presentation of this work is intended to wish the Belt and Road International Day · Silkworm God's Day and the "Belt and Road" New Year Celebration to last for generations, and to spread China's excellent traditional culture to all parts of the world along with the Belt and Road International Cooperation Initiative.
On behalf of the organizing committee, Chen Entian thanked Master Kang Huifang for her gift and fully affirmed the unique value of intangible cultural heritage projects such as Chao Embroidery in inheriting Chinese culture and promoting cultural exchanges and mutual learning. He emphasized that the Belt and Road International Day · Silkworm God's Day and the "Belt and Road" New Year Celebration will continue to pay attention to and support the living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and promote the in-depth integration of traditional Chinese culture with international people-to-people exchanges.
"Celebrate the New Year along the Belt and Road, and compose a new chapter with the joint celebration of five festivals." The Global Chinatown "Belt and Road" New Year Celebration Organizing Committee integrates Silkworm God's Day (Belt and Road International Day on December 16), Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival to form a joint celebration of five festivals for the New Year. This inspection activity has further highlighted the connotation of people-to-people and cultural exchanges under the Belt and Road Initiative, and also provided a new display window for Chaozhou's intangible cultural heritage to go global.
