Lucy is a Polish girl studying in China. Her video theme: experiencing traditional Chinese festivals.
Spring Festival dumplings, Lantern Festival tangyuan, Qingming outings, Dragon Boat zongzi, Mid-Autumn moon viewing, Double Ninth climbs. Lucy never misses a festival — and always insists on making things by hand.
She studies festival customs in advance and executes them seriously: writing spring couplets, making lanterns, weaving five-color cords. Her "festival homework" earns praise from Chinese netizens: "full ritual sense".
Lucy says festivals are the essence of culture. Through festival after festival, she gradually understands the Chinese love for reunion, nature and life.
Lucy is a Polish exchange student famous for experiencing Chinese traditional festivals. Her videos record a Polish girl joy in Chinese festivals.
Content: "a Polish student spends Spring Festival", "first time wrapping zongzi", "Mid-Autumn mooncake challenge" - celebrating Chinese festivals with ceremony.
Going viral: her "foreign student celebrates New Year in China" series is popular - pasting couplets, making dumplings and staying up late with Chinese friends, warm scenes.
Observations: "Chinese festivals all have tastes - Spring Festival tastes of dumplings, Dragon Boat of zongzi, Mid-Autumn of mooncakes."
Significance: she is an international experiencer of Chinese festivals - introducing them to foreign audiences and reviving ceremony for Chinese viewers.
For readers: her videos make you want to celebrate the next Chinese festival - festivals deserve to be taken seriously.
She also finds the most moving part of Chinese festivals is reunion - Spring Festival homecoming, zongzi at Dragon Boat, moon-watching at Mid-Autumn; every festival pulls people home. "In Poland we also value family, but China turns home into festivals." She is learning dumplings, aiming to make ones northern friends approve. Her festival journey continues.
Her most important lesson from Chinese festivals: "ceremony makes days shine" - fumbling pasting couplets, flour-covered hands making dumplings, fireworks outside while staying up - ordinary days gain light. "Festivals are not holidays but reminders to live seriously." She plans yearly festival videos, building her own "Chinese festival calendar".
She plans to write her festival experiences for a Polish student magazine - "I want Polish youth to know how fun Chinese festivals are." She is learning paper-cutting, planning a "fú" character for her dorm door at Spring Festival. "Festivals have no borders, and neither does joy."
At Spring Festival she will write "fú" for the whole class - with her first learned characters, sending her first Chinese blessings.
Her favourite Chinese word is "tuán yuán" (reunion) - "it puts the character for circle in the middle, like a family sitting together."
Her Chinese name transliterates Lucy, but she prefers "Xiǎo Lù" - "it sounds like a Chinese girl."
