The long-awaited Tsinghua Centennial Celebration Ceremony was supposed to be a cultural feast for China's top universities, but who expected that such a grand celebration was violently bombarded by netizens.
At the celebration site, the students wore dark robes that resembled the "funeral team", and the heavy ranks moved slowly, with expressionless faces like walking corpses!
Coupled with the unexpected absence of the national flag, there was a depressing and solemn atmosphere, which shrouded the campus that should have been full of celebration.
The field of public opinion is not "frightened", for Tsinghua University, which is known as a "top university", the crazy shooting of netizens can be said to have directly nailed it to the "pillar of shame".
I can't even grasp the most basic sense of ritual, and I can't even ignore the respect that traditional Chinese culture should have, which is simply a heavy cultural blow.
"This is disrespectful to the motherland and culture. Doubts and accusations abounded, and Tsinghua University's status as a "self-proclaimed top university" was also dismissive.
The fact that the top students with high hopes are so out of place at such an important moment makes people wonder whether Tsinghua University has fulfilled its due responsibility in inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
As the highest temple of Chinese education, Tsinghua University still has a long way to go if it wants to truly establish cultural self-confidence and interpret Chinese characteristics in a modern way.
At present, the school seems to be more in pursuit of formality, and the inner cultural heritage is nowhere to be found. "What's wrong with Tsinghua's campus culture?"
In fact, the Tsinghua campus is not "once mothed".
As early as a few years ago, the school attracted a frenzy of criticism for a so-called "tall" school celebration.
At that time, the school had said that it would verify the pulse of campus cultural construction after receiving huge public pressure, but now it seems that it has just begun.
However, there is a limit to the school's own strength.
After all, in the process of modernization, China's entire education system has the stubborn disease of pursuing hardware construction and ignoring the cultivation of soft power.
As the cradle of pillar talents, how can colleges and universities waste their talents in the function of inheriting Chinese cultural concepts and cultivating students' cultural self-confidence?
Although Tsinghua is now in a dilemma of public opinion, this is also a slap in the face, forcing the university and other universities to make up their minds, reflect quickly and take action. In the face of many questions, Tsinghua must take the initiative to answer.
Schools should deeply understand the meaning of school celebrations, and should not blindly pursue formalism, but should pay more attention to excavating the cultural values contained in it.
The design of the school celebration should be close to the aesthetic interests of young people, and draw on the forms that young people like to see, such as film and television stage plays, in order to truly create a celebration with campus cultural characteristics.
In addition, traditional cultural elements are also indispensable, such as the integration of classical Chinese ceremonial formations into the formation of formations, in order to highlight the cultural atmosphere.
More importantly, the school needs to humbly listen to the voices of teachers, students and staff, respect the opinions and suggestions of the grassroots, so that the organization of the next school celebration is no longer a process of upward and downward order, but an institutional arrangement for brainstorming.
After all, how to inherit the excellent cultural spirit in celebration activities and guide young students to establish cultural self-confidence requires urgent attention in all aspects of colleges and universities.
This turmoil in the field of public opinion has sounded the alarm, and Tsinghua must learn from the pain, take the pulse, and strive to reshape the cultural brand image.
We look forward to the next centennial celebration of the university, to see this highland of Chinese education interpret the essence of Chinese culture in an innovative way, show the self-confidence of the university culture with actions, and become a model and example of university culture construction.