Educate people with aesthetics, cultural people, traditional culture into the campus, and excellent art to nourish children's hearts. On May 17, the launching ceremony of the 2024 Xingqing District Excellent Traditional Culture (Opera) into the Campus was held at the Zhenyuan Branch of Xingqing District Experimental Second Primary School Education Group.
The event was hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Xingqing District Party Committee, the United Front Work Department of the Xingqing District Party Committee, the Xingqing District Culture, Tourism, Sports, Radio, Film and Television Bureau and the Xingqing District Education Bureau, and organized by the Xingqing District Cultural Center, the Xingqing District Library and the Zhenyuan Branch of the Xingqing District Experimental Second Primary School Education Group.
At the launching ceremony, a certificate of "Xingqing District's Excellent Traditional Culture (Xiqu) into the Campus 'Traditional Culture Characteristic Society'" was issued to the school's characteristic clubs, and books were donated.
The opera "Plum Blossom Fu", the folk instrumental music performance, the dance "Shangchun Mountain", the intangible cultural heritage flowers, the gonghou performance, the guqin "Flowing Water" and the calligraphy display were staged one by one, which were wonderful. The performances of "Descendants of the Dragon", "Slow Voice" and "Jasmine on the Clouds" brought by the student club expressed their love for traditional culture. During the performance, the paper-cut fashion show was particularly eye-catching, integrating paper-cutting with fashion, colliding with inheritance and innovation, lighting up traditional culture with modern elements, and making traditional culture bloom with the brilliance of the times.
"When I was a child, I listened to my mother talk about the knowledge of traditional culture, and I also accompanied my grandmother to watch Huangmei Opera, Peking Opera and other programs, which deeply attracted me." Student Yuan Yishan said.
The students also visited the excellent traditional culture publicity exhibition board, and the little lecturer explained the cultural knowledge of opera, intangible cultural heritage and so on. More than 20 kinds of intangible cultural heritage projects, such as braiding, tie-dyeing, paper-cutting, colored thorns, dough sculpture, sugar painting, Yellow River stone painting, Helan inkstone making, etc., entered the campus, and in the intangible cultural heritage display and experience area, children felt the charm of intangible cultural heritage at zero distance. The school also exhibited the students' works such as paper-cutting, braiding, woodworking, dough sculpture, and printmaking, showing the artistic achievements of teachers and students in learning traditional culture, making the excellent traditional culture "live", vividly entering the children's field of vision, and broadening their knowledge and understanding of excellent traditional culture.
It is understood that in 2024, the excellent traditional culture (opera) of Xingqing District will enter the campus in the form of customized services, focusing on the actual campus and the cultural needs of students, through various forms such as museum-school cooperation, hand-in-hand co-construction, interactive experience, etc., combined with the cultural characteristics of each school, the art of opera and traditional culture will be integrated into the campus cultural construction, creating a strong atmosphere of extensive participation of teachers and students and the blossoming of clubs, and better inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
"In recent years, Xingqing District has continued to carry out excellent traditional culture (opera) into the campus activities, taking the classroom as the position and the campus as the stage, with wonderful opera performances, in-depth knowledge explanations, and standardized and flexible interactive tutoring, so that children can feel the charm of traditional culture at close range, understand the art of opera, appreciate classic passages, and further enhance students' cultural self-confidence and cultural consciousness." Gong Qianqian, director of the Xingqing District Cultural and Sports Activity Center, said.