Author: Pen and ink Qingdao
"Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweep the house, twenty-five, make tofu..." On the way, I met several children singing about the New Year over and over again, and a nursery rhyme made us feel as if we were back to the Scene of the New Year when we were young.
Mainland traditional festivals have a long history and are profound, but with the acceleration of the process of globalization, traditional customs and festivals have also been hit by unprecedented impacts. The documentary "New Year on the Tip of the Tongue" has such a passage: "The taste of the Year is getting weaker and weaker, only because with the improvement of living standards, Chinese New Year's Eve rice has lost its appeal..." Indeed, the food that was once eaten during the New Year is now everywhere in restaurants; it used to be waited until the first year of the New Year to be dressed from head to toe, and now it has become no longer expected; but it is the haunting Taste of the Year in the memory that touches our heartstrings the most. "New Year's taste" is a sense of ceremony with special significance in the eyes of each of us, and it is a longing for the customs and customs of our hometown...
Although in the busy city, in the crowd of hurried people, the taste of the new year is getting weaker and weaker, but what makes the author happy is that in recent years, the "guoxue fever" and "national hot flashes" have continued to heat up, and the interest of the whole society in traditional Chinese culture has increased day by day, such as the explosion of programs such as "China in the Classics", "Chinese Poetry Conference", "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and so on, so that people can rethink and attach importance to the splendid civilization formed by the Chinese nation in the historical evolution of more than 5,000 years, and the nursery rhymes about the New Year sung by children at the beginning. At the same time, we must also think about how to make young people become "fans" of traditional culture, so that they can identify with and inherit our excellent traditional culture from the bottom of their hearts.
Cultural inheritance starts from the doll
"All things are born, but the only knows its roots.". Based on the source of Chinese culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that "the excellent traditional Chinese culture created and continued by the Chinese nation in thousands of years of history is the root and soul of the Chinese nation", emphasizing that "China's excellent traditional culture has become the gene of the Chinese nation" and "the broad and profound Chinese excellent traditional culture is the foundation for us to stand firm in the turmoil of world culture".
The key to inheriting and developing China's excellent traditional culture lies in strengthening cognitive education. Being good at excavating educational resources from traditional Chinese culture has a great role in promoting the continuous improvement of the attractiveness and appeal of traditional cultural education. Start from basic education, give play to the leading role of classroom education, and adhere to the cultural genes and spiritual lifeline of the Chinese nation in the teaching and research system.
When it comes to the inheritance and education of integrating traditional Chinese culture into basic education, we have to mention the Beijing 21st Century International School. Last summer, when I attended the graduation ceremony of Beijing 21st Century International School, I chatted with a parent who remembered it vividly, "When I first chose a school for my children, I saw a lot of schools, and finally chose the 21st Century International School, because although it is an international school, it is also very Chinese." In the globalized environment, children must be competitive, not only have an international perspective, but also can not forget the roots, this school has done a good job in both aspects, proving that our original choice is correct. ”
This Beijing 21st Century International School, which has been praised by parents, has an impressive motto of "be a heroic Chinese". The 12-year consistent curriculum system includes Chinese traditional culture courses, drama courses, orator courses, etiquette courses, study tour courses, English through train courses, etc., which organically combines Chinese and Western cultural courses, so that students can carry forward the essence of Chinese culture while having an international vision, and never forget their "Chinese soul".
Cultural identity, build cultural self-confidence
"Whether students go abroad or not, we must let students study China's excellent traditional culture, keep their roots, and hope that they can learn to serve the motherland.", this is not an empty phrase. For how to cultivate students' literary literacy and appreciation ability, the Twenty-first Century International School has its own unique method, vertical layout to open a twelve-year consistent Chinese traditional culture course, horizontal extension of the opening of courses such as a consistent system of study trips and other courses, the formation of a multi-dimensional three-dimensional curriculum system, according to the cognitive characteristics of students of different ages, in different sections of the use of different course implementation methods, students from an early age immersed in it, invisibly establish cultural self-confidence.
Grades 1-6 focus on "chanting". In 2013, primary schools set up a "Classical Recitation" course, which selected classic works suitable for young students to learn from a vast sea of traditional literary works, and developed the curriculum textbook "Happy Recitation" for all grades. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning reading, students recite ancient poems, classics of traditional Chinese studies and modern and contemporary poems, and start a day of study life in the sound of reading books.
Grades 7-9 focus on "reading". The school divides the language teaching in the course selection mode into modules such as basic language, basic reading, famous book reading, ancient poetry reading, and literary reading, and has compiled reading books such as "Famous Books Reading Course", "American Literature Reading", "Famous Works Treasure Book", "Poetry Conference" and so on. At this stage, the classics are no longer rote memorization, but the focus shifts to understanding, and the school has specially designed courses and evaluations for this.
Grades 10-12 focus on "studying". The classical reading of high school students has really entered the stage of internalization, they have begun to think, research, criticize and output, and begin to study classic masterpieces from a dialectical point of view. The first and second years of high school are mainly literary comparative reading. High school students have set up a course of "Appreciation and Study", which improves the level of students' literary appreciation and improves their cultural accomplishment through in-depth study of "Dream of the Red Chamber". In addition to the curriculum, the high school opens a regular reading club, and in the context of course selection, it provides students with a unique reading environment and enriches literary books. Frequent reading theme activities, such as book reports, famous artists entering the campus and other activities, to enhance students' interest in reading.
Cultural accomplishment, accumulation of connotation
Stepping onto the international stage, every student is a mirror of Chinese culture. The school pays attention to cultivating students' artistic heritage in addition to academic study. Primary schools offer a wide range of interest elective courses at different levels, so that students can contact art courses as much as possible, cultivate interests, and find the artistic direction they really like, such as opening courses such as drama, calligraphy, painting, music, dance, etc.; the junior high school pays attention to art appreciation and personality cultivation, such as the development of art and life, soft pen calligraphy, Peking Opera and other courses, so that students can cultivate their temperament in a relaxed state of physical and mental relaxation; the high school set up a Sinology Art Group, developed the "Post-Examination Era" curriculum, and developed the "Appreciation of Traditional Chinese Culture" teaching materials, covering language, Politics, history, geography, art and other disciplines allow students to feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture. In addition, the school offers cooking classes and tai chi classes, inviting national celebrity chefs and tai chi chuan to teach, so that students can not only spread Chinese food culture and martial arts culture after going abroad, but also cultivate their body and mind and improve their self-service ability.
Famous artists enlighten and understand the essence of culture
Junior Confucius Class
Zhou Enlai class
Great people who have made outstanding contributions to the motherland contain valuable spiritual wealth, and their role in guiding students' values is immeasurable. The school carries out different forms of Chinese celebrity courses according to the age characteristics of students. The Primary School Department has set up "Zhou Enlai Class," "Lei Feng Class," "Junior Confucius Class," "Qian Xuesen Class," and other century celebrity classes, invited relatives, friends, or celebrities who have studied the spirit of great men to award plaques to the class, planned and organized various practical activities, and let students visit the field and feel the loftiness of the great man; the middle and high schools built "Chinese cultural celebrities" theme classrooms (Confucius, Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Du Fu, Lu Xun, Lao She, and Mo Yan) to do a good job in classroom layout and supporting supporting subject teachers; the school invited celebrities from various fields of contemporary times to enter the campus to hold lectures , a series of inspirational lectures for students, sharing growth stories with students, face-to-face communication.
Don't forget the original, in order to create the future! Starting from the dolls, starting from education, the moisturizer silently makes young people fall in love with traditional culture, become "fans" of traditional culture, take the initiative to inherit and show the beauty of Traditional Chinese culture, and make every Chinese son and daughter proud and proud of China's splendid culture.
Approaching the end of the year, there are many feelings, taking school education as an example, throwing bricks and jade, and discussing together, in order to create a new glory of Chinese culture.