Youth Daily, Youth Shanghai reporter Liu Chunxia/Wen Wukai/Photo
"100 years ago, in July 1921, a group of young people gathered in the Shikumen building at No. 106 Wangzhi Road in the former French Concession in Shanghai, and many of them did not necessarily know that they were embarking on an earth-shattering undertaking to completely change the trajectory of China's modern historical development and even reshape the world political pattern..." On the afternoon of October 25, the Fourth National Film Week for Primary and Secondary School Students, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, opened in Shanghai. At the opening ceremony, Xue Feng, director of a major memorial hall of the Communist Party of China, together with the curators of the Jinggangshan Revolution Museum, the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall, the Yan'an Revolution Memorial Hall, the Chongqing Hongyan Revolutionary History Museum, and the Xibaipo Memorial Hall, presented a light and shadow class, and showed through video the style of young people in the six places "always following the party and passing on the torch from generation to generation."
With the theme of "A Hundred Years of Light and Shadow to the Initial Heart, Great Spirit Passed down from Generation to Generation", the opening ceremony showed the fruitful results of film and television education through laser display, song and dance performances, "light and shadow classroom", chorus and other forms.
Since the beginning of this year, a large number of outstanding red film and television works such as "Chosin Lake", "My Father and I", and "Red Boat" have set off a ratings boom, and have triggered a boom in the vast number of students to "learn party history while chasing dramas". Excellent red film and television works are vivid textbooks.
"Everyone has seen the tribute film '1921' and must still remember one of the plots: Yang Kaihui looked at the fireworks in the sky and asked Mao Zedong: 'Life is so short, so short that you may not see the dawn of victory, is it meaningful for us to pay today?' Mao Zedong replied firmly: 'Of course there is!' Xue Feng told the children in the "Light and Shadow Classroom" that history is not only written in history books, but also engraved in historical sites like the site of a major assembly, and also flashed in the light and shadow of films with realistic themes like "1921", and finally condensed in people's hearts.
Film and television art is not only a symbol of the culture of a country and a city, but also an important classroom to guide students to continue the red gene, feel the feelings of home and country, and sow the seeds of truth, goodness and beauty. Since 2004, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission has launched the reform of the mechanism of combining culture and education, introduced film and television education into the main channel of the classroom, and carried out fruitful exploration of film and television education. In recent years, Shanghai has also widely carried out the "Centennial Tree Man" movie sunshine walk in primary and secondary schools. In 2017 and 2019, Shanghai has successfully held the second and third "National Film Week for Primary and Secondary School Students". The fourth "National Film Week for Primary and Secondary School Students" continued to be held in Shanghai, which not only showed the deep and continuous film and television roots of Shanghai, the "City of Culture", but also a vivid microcosm of the vigorous development of film and television education in primary and secondary schools in Shanghai.
Min Hui, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Education and Public Health Work Committee and deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, said that in recent years, Shanghai has made a series of efforts and explorations in film and television education: First, it has improved the construction of the film and television education curriculum system; second, it has strengthened the "four histories" propaganda and education with the focus on party history study and education, and made good use of red resources to do a good job in the "great ideological and political class"; the third is to further improve the mechanism for combining culture and education; and the fourth is to establish a municipal financial education input mechanism and a public welfare distribution and screening mechanism. Shanghai will take the construction of the Ministry of Education's "Three All-Round Education" Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Zone and the Basic Education Comprehensive Reform Pilot Zone as an opportunity to deepen curriculum reform, promote the reform of resource supply, and form a pattern of "opening the door and thinking about politics" with the participation of the whole society. Combine the inheritance and promotion of the great founding spirit of the Communist Party of China with film and television education, combine it with "making good use of the great ideological and political class", and combine it with the improvement of students' after-school service quality, so that excellent films can become vivid carriers of educating people, and film and television practice can give birth to students' growth strength.
It is reported that during the film week, a number of activities will be held, such as the exhibition and broadcast of excellent film works, the collection and display of students' micro-films, the display of film and television club activities, the presentation of classic films, and the display of film and television teaching, so as to bring students a rich "excellent film and television feast".
Edit: Lu Tianyi