The "Shining Red Star" - Shanghai Old General and Young Calligraphy Works Exhibition, which invited the veteran general and the "little calligrapher" to share the stage, was recently held in the Shanghai Library. More than 100 young calligraphy enthusiasts relived the history of the revolution and red culture in their calligraphy exchanges with their revolutionary predecessors.
Illustration: Exhibition site Courtesy of the organizer (the same below)
The exhibition brings together 42 works by 30 veteran generals, including General Tong Shiping and Lieutenant General Xu Jianzhong, and 166 calligraphy works for young people selected and sent by 16 districts in the city.
Veteran generals and young people create works around the three major themes of the centenary of the founding of the party, the 94th anniversary of the founding of the army, and the 72nd anniversary of the founding of New China. They wrote poems of revolutionary leaders and founding generals, poems of revolutionary martyrs, golden sentences and dictionaries of the general secretary, in order to express their deep affection for the motherland and the people's army. Planner Yu Liandong believes that the health of adolescents should be both physical and mental. Holding this exhibition, so that the old general and the teenagers can display on the same stage, write red poems together, and interact with each other with deep feelings, which is conducive to cultivating the red cultural literacy of young people and letting them have a new understanding of today's happy life.
Hearing that they could participate in the exhibition with the old general, students from Xuhui Middle School, World Chinese Primary School enthusiastically signed up. Many students in key schools feel that they have benefited a lot from listening to the stories of the old generals in the past, so that they can see their future life choices more clearly.
Photo: Works on display
Yu Liandong said that he deeply felt the love of the party and the army for the people, and because he always held the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, the party could lead the people to create a beautiful life. He felt the need to let young people understand and recognize these things subtly through the art of calligraphy. At present, he has set up a 700-square-meter exhibition hall as a permanent exhibition hall after the "Shining Red Star" exhibition (3rd Floor, No. 183 Hongcao South Road), so that Shanghai teenagers can visit the exhibition at any time.
The exhibition is guided by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Veterans Affairs, sponsored by the Shanghai National Defense Education Association and the Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center, and hosted by the Putuo District Youth Education Activity Center and the Shanghai Xinxin Nutrition and Catering. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Le Mengrong)