International students hold their paper-cuttings. [Photo/IC]

Zhejiang Ocean University in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province, hosted a Chinese New Year celebration for its international students on Feb 11, with more than 40 students from Russia, Nigeria, and Kazakhstan immersing themselves in Chinese New Year traditions by writing Spring Festival couplets and crafting fu (fortune) characters, sugar-coated hawthorns, dumplings, and paper-cuttings.