A hand-painted T-shirt decorated with an image of a white-tailed eagle. [Photo by Zhang Xingjian/for chinadaily.com.cn]

To celebrate the 66th anniversary of International Children's Day and Sino-Polish relationships, the Embassy of Poland in Beijing held its annual Open Day event on May 30.

With the theme of "Coming to Poland and Find Your Story", more than 700 children and parents from home and abroad were invited to participate in a series of cultural activities from tasting Polish food, doing jigsaws to hearing lectures, to trying on traditional Polish dress.

Frąckowska Julia, media commissioner of the Poland Cultural Center, said that China and Poland had encouraged cooperation in cultural fields in the past two decades with Mr. Tadeusz Chomicki, Polish ambassador to China, attending more than 100 activities.

She added that following the exhibition Treasures from Chopin’s Country: Polish Art from the 15th-20th Century displayed in February at the National Museum of China, they were about to build a friendship garden at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. A total of 29 trees would be planted in the garden with 28 ginkgo trees representing 28 EU memberships and 1 oak marking the friendship between China and the EU. 

On the open day, visitors played a memory game called MEMO, a Polish folk custom. 18 card pairs are laid out face down and players take turns to flip over two cards at a time for matching. In the end, the player with the most matches wins.