“跨越山海的味道——万里茶道与咖啡之路”巡展登陆圣保罗

Brief (coffeeyo.com): The touring exhibition “Flavors Across Mountains and Seas — The Ten-Thousand-Li Tea Road and the Coffee Road” has opened at the Assis campus of São Paulo State University, the second Brazilian stop of a 2026 China-Brazil cultural-year exchange built around tea and coffee.

China News Service, Assis, São Paulo, September 13 (reporter Wang Lina) — The themed touring exhibition “Flavors Across Mountains and Seas — The Ten-Thousand-Li Tea Road and the Coffee Road,” jointly hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and organized by the Brazil Confucius Institute Alliance, recently opened successfully at the Assis campus of São Paulo State University (UNESP). Campus leadership, faculty and student representatives, and representatives of the UNESP Confucius Institute gathered to appreciate tea-and-coffee culture and savor the beauty of civilizational blend.

As a key people-to-people exchange project of the 2026 “China-Brazil Cultural Year,” the touring exhibition had previously completed its first stop in Belo Horizonte; Assis is the second stop of this Brazil tour.

Using tea and coffee as mediums and culture as a bridge, the exhibition systematically traces the historical context, transmission routes, and cultural connotations of the Ten-Thousand-Li Tea Road and Brazil’s coffee road, vividly presenting the rich fruits of China-Brazil civilizational exchange and mutual learning, deepening local faculty and students’ understanding of both cultures through immersive viewing and further consolidating the friendly foundation of people-to-people bonds between the two nations.

Latin America’s first jointly built Chinese-language undergraduate program between Chinese and foreign universities formally launched and began classes this August at the UNESP Assis campus. The exhibition’s landing at Assis precisely leverages the new program’s academic advantages, empowering discipline building, talent cultivation, and a campus Chinese-language cultural atmosphere, and helping deeply integrate language teaching with cultural dissemination.

Daniela Nogueira de Moraes Garcia, vice dean of the UNESP Assis campus, said that tea and coffee are respectively highly representative cultural symbols and vehicles of daily life in China and Brazil, carrying the two countries’ different yet connected humanistic heritages and witnessing the long, ocean-spanning friendship between their peoples.

Cui Ying, Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at the State University of Minas Gerais, was invited to exhibit and delivered a speech, saying that although tea and coffee originate from different cultural traditions, both carry their respective nations’ historical memory and humanistic spirit. This exhibition is not only a display of the two beverages’ history and culture, but also hopes to enhance understanding and exchange between the Chinese and Brazilian publics through cultural encounter.

Going forward, the member institutions of the Brazil Confucius Institute Alliance will take the baton in turn and tour the exhibition, continuously building bridges of China-Brazil communication through diverse cultural activities and writing new chapters of mutual learning and people-to-people connection between the two civilizations.

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