Research and think, learn something. On April 20th, more than 40 teachers and students from Zhengzhou Foreign Chinese Middle School, under the leadership of the staff of Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, went to the Archaeological Museum of Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Qingtai Site of Xingyang to start a "crossing" historical research journey.
Take a look at the exhibition hall and explore the rich history
"This is the Zhengzhou Paleolithic Culture Exhibition Hall, which is the first stop of the archaeological museum research tour of the Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. At ten o'clock in the morning, under the guidance of the docent, the teachers and students of Zhengzhou Foreign Chinese Middle School walked into the archaeological museum and gathered in front of the booth displaying ancient human skull fossils. Everyone gathered in a row and listened carefully to the explanations of the docent, as if they had traveled through time and space, and "looked at each other" with the human ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago. There are also students holding notebooks and carefully recording the content they are interested in.
In the Zhengzhou Centennial Archaeological Exhibition Hall and the Chinese Yazhang Exhibition Hall, teachers and students continue to explore the mysteries of history. Through vivid and interesting ways, the docents make complex archaeological knowledge easy to understand, so that students can deeply feel the charm of Chinese culture. In particular, in front of the knowledge points that combine ancient and modern times, such as "the origin of the Chu River and the Han Dynasty in Xingyang, Henan", the narrator skillfully connects the site culture with the entertainment items in people's lives, so that students can understand this history more intuitively.
Doing handicraft, traditional culture and modern aesthetics
After the exhibition hall visit, teachers and students came to the activity room on the second floor to participate in the fan painting flower DIY activity. The staff provided each student with fans and materials for making fans, so that the students could make their own fans. In this session, the students showed a high level of creativity and enthusiasm. They selected their favorite plant patterns and glued the flowers and plants to the fans, creating their own unique works of art. "Because I usually like to draw, I also plan to draw anime characters on it when I go home, so that traditional culture and modern elements can be integrated," said Li Tongyu, Class 7 of Zhengzhou Foreign Chinese Middle School in 2026.
Entering the construction site, archaeological practice is insightful
The Qingtai site is a large-scale settlement site of the middle and late Yangshao culture around 5,300 years ago, where archaeologists have found the triple ring moat of the middle and late Yangshao culture, the astronomical relics of the Big Dipper, the public cemetery showing the integration of different cultures, the urn coffin burial that is important to the origin of silk, the earliest prehistoric adobe wall in the Central Plains, etc., and unearthed a large number of cultural relics of the Yangshao culture period. In particular, the relics of the Big Dipper astronomical sacrifice at the Qingtai site are the best preserved state in China and the earliest astronomical phenomenon related to the Big Dipper, which has important value for revealing the civilization process of the Central Plains and showing the culture created by the ancestors of the Yellow River , and visited the Big Dipper Nine Star sacrifice area, tombs, housing sites, ring moats and other cultural relics.
Yang Li, the head of the grade, told reporters, "Through this research activity, the children have close contact with cultural relics, which not only broadens their horizons, but also increases their knowledge reserves." At the same time, through this activity, the teachers also found the shining points of the children, for example, some children's geographical knowledge reserves are very rich. What's more, the children share what they know through conversation, which is a good way to improve the children's group work skills and oral expression skills. ”
Zheng Bao all-media reporter Li Juzheng intern Li Siyuan