| Liuyang Rong Media Center reporter Ouyang Wenjiang
"Hello everyone, I am Geng Jinghao from Liuyang, Hunan, 14 years old this year. On August 15, 2018, I had the first fortune in my life, and it was a double share: at that time, when I was just in the sixth grade of primary school, I became the guardian of the state security and the little explainer of the Liuyang Confucian Temple..."
On January 15, the second season of the large-scale youth talk show "China Teenagers Say" was broadcast on CCTV's children's channel. Geng Jinghao, a junior high school student of Liuyanghe Middle School and who was awarded the "Good Boy of Hunan", won the praise of the audience with a flowing Hanfu and a narration.
"I am willing to guard the thousand-year-old history with the heart of a teenager and inherit the gifts of China." Since 2018, Geng Jinghao has become the youngest "national security" guardian in the Liuyang Confucian Temple. Every holiday, she will wear traditional costumes to tell the story of the Temple of Literature for tourists, explore the meaning of the "ritual" in the Deep Tibetan Temple of Literature, and show the beauty of Chinese etiquette.
Polished 28 drafts
Only to show the beauty of etiquette in the Temple of Literature
"Zi Yue: Don't learn poetry, you can't speak; don't learn etiquette, you can't stand..." A flowing Hanfu, holding a folding fan. The background music sounded, and the personable Geng Jing good model entered the audience's field of vision. Immediately, she smiled and relaxed her sleeves and gave a bowing salute to the audience.
"I guard the two major 'national security', not the 'treasure' of the 'treasure', but the 'protection' of the 'protection'. One of these two major 'national security' is the Temple of Literature itself, which is a national key cultural relics protection unit; the other is the sacrificial hole music in the Temple of Literature, which is a national intangible cultural heritage. As of today, I have been guarding for four years, more than five hundred hours..."
With Geng Jing's well-told narration, the story of the young "national security" guardian instantly won the applause of the audience. In the more than ten minutes of talk show, Geng Jinghao not only told how she became the guardian of the "national security", but also the process of showing tourists the traditional Chinese culture contained in the Temple of Literature. The sense of pride and responsibility in it made the audience on and off the screen feel the extraordinary love for traditional culture of this "good teenager in Hunan".
Talking about the process of recording and broadcasting, Geng Jinghao said that he only had one idea at that time, that is, to show the Liuyang Confucian Temple and the beauty of the etiquette contained in it through CCTV.
Back on July 20, 2021, Geng Jinghao's mother, Geng Zhengzhen, received a phone call from the other party who said that she was the choreographer of "China Teenagers Say" and wanted to invite her daughter to participate in the recording of the second season.
"What to say, how to say? How can we maximize the humanistic beauty of Liuyang? Although Geng Jinghao has long passed the ninth level of recitation performance in the China Opera and Dance Theater and the ninth level of the national children's broadcast host level test, it is the first time to record a talk show on a TV station. In the process of preparing the manuscript, Geng Jinghao's mother and daughter were cautious and cautious. After discussion, the two decided to intercept a small story encountered in the process of explaining the Temple of Literature as an incision -
In September 2019, Geng Jinghao received a group of international friends from Japan, South Korea, Tanzania, Congo and other countries. Although she did not speak English fluently enough, she made these international friends cross the long river of history of more than 2,000 years with a bowing salute, and collided with the profound traditional Chinese culture. Subsequently, these international friends from different countries also learned to pay homage to Confucius in the form of Geng Jinghao.
"Just from a greeting ceremony, we can feel the excellent quality of our Chinese nation's self-humility and respect, and the sense of solemnity and ceremony engraved in the genes." Geng Jinghao said that this small matter has always been deeply in her memory. The Four Prayers were the result of her studies at the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province, and the Guozi Supervisor in Beijing, and when she returned, she put what she learned into practice. Therefore, she often thinks, how should the "post-00s" inject new blood into the fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation, let more people perceive the beauty of this etiquette, and explore this mysterious and exquisite world with "etiquette" and "etiquette"?
"After the memorization was completed, the back was changed, and from receiving the invitation to the official recording, there were two or three months, and the manuscript alone was changed 28 times." Because it is necessary to show the beauty of etiquette hidden in the Liuyang Confucian Temple, but also to conform to the relaxed and lively style of the talk show, Geng Jing polished the manuscript again and again according to the requirements of the program team. Until she came to power, she had only one thought in her heart, "We must not embarrass the people of Liuyang", fortunately everything went smoothly.
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"Entering through the Dacheng Gate, walking through the stone YongDao where four ancient trees stand between them, the building connecting the platform is called Yulu Dan Majesty. When I saw the word 'Dan Majesty', the first thing that came to my mind was the emperor... Let's look at this Royal Road Dan Majesty, dan majesty in the traditional architecture of the mainland is a symbol of rank and power, only the emperor's palace and Confucius temple can be built, the emperor walks during the sacrifice, the emperor walks, of course, the royal road. ”
Since 2018, every weekend, there is an additional little docent dressed in Hanfu in the Liuyang Confucian Temple - she is Geng Jinghao. During the explanation, the solemn and imposing Liuyang Confucian Temple became more intimate because it was interspersed with all kinds of literary and historical trivia that the little girl usually collected.
At the beginning, under the influence of her mother, Geng Jinghao liked to watch literary and historical programs such as "National Treasures" and "General History of China" since she was a child. The more I watched, the stronger the cultural pride. "You can try to apply to the Temple of Literature as a docent", the mother and daughter invariably thought of the Liuyang Temple of Literature not far from home. Unexpectedly, the museum agreed to her application.
In the next four years, Geng Jing's holidays were basically spent in the Temple of Literature. When there are tourists, she will do her best to explain carefully; when there are no tourists, she will think about how to improve the explanations, and ask the docents of the Temple of Literature for advice on the skills and methods of explanation. After working as a small narrator at the Temple of Literature for a period of time, Geng Jinghao also worked with his mother to intersperse the relevant knowledge he usually collected into the temple of literature and record it into an audio program to tell a different temple of literature through the series of programs "Jing Hao Says the Temple of Literature".
With the growth of age and knowledge, Geng Jinghao, who loves traditional Chinese culture, in addition to exploring the story of the Temple of Literature, also began to have a new understanding and feeling for the red heroes of Liuyang. And her "fate" with the martyr Li Bai also opened up——
In May 2020, because of a coincidence, Geng Jinghao "met" Li Bai for the first time, a revolutionary who went out of a small mountain village in Liuyang, lit up the light of revolution with his life and wrote the tenacious bravery of Liuyang people with loyalty. At that time, Geng Jinghao's Liuyanghe Middle School wanted to rehearse a work to participate in the city's recitation competition. After careful preparation, seven eighth-grade students from Liuyanghe Middle School, including Geng Jinghao, participated in the 4th Chinese Classic Poetry Recitation Competition in Hunan Province and the 2020 Hunan Provincial "Recitation of China" Classic Recitation Competition. Their performance of "Radio Wave Faithful Soul" stood out from nearly 400 works, winning the runner-up and best creative award of the competition, becoming the only team in the competition to win two major awards.
During the "May Day" period in 2021, Geng Zhengzhen invited a professional filming team to record a video of explanation for Geng Jinghao at his own expense and sent it to Li Bai's former residence in Zhangfang. "To our surprise, the effect of the video was very good, and the people's network also released it on their platform." Now it is an unexpected surprise to let more people know About Li Bai and Liuyang. With this success, in just over a year, Geng Zhengzhen took Geng Jinghao to tell Li Bai's story in 11 different versions of preaching and recording. Although the forms are different, the heartfelt reverence is the same.
"Liuyang is not only a thousand-year-old county with a profound history and culture, but also a red hot land that has undergone the baptism of blood and fire. This city has thousands of reasons to love. Geng Jinghao said that whether it is the identity of the guardian of the "national security" or the identity of the red culture preacher, it stems from the love for Liuyang. In the midst of this, she loves Liuyang even more, and she also wants to do her best to tap the beauty of Liuyang and let the world know more about Liuyang.
Source: Liuyang Daily
Editor-in-charge: Yuan Zhengzheng
Review: Liu Haixiong Song Pan