Zhou Zhengye, a fifth-grader, had seen the string lantern dance rehearsal of the school's traditional culture festival, and had always been deeply impressed by this program full of red lanterns, thinking that the first community class in the afternoon would soon be able to learn the string lantern making in the flower drum play, and before the lunch break was over, he came to the Eryuan Town Center School in Wencheng County to wait. Classes like this were in high demand at his school, and this was the first time he had chosen one.
The class bell rang, the course design teacher Teresa Teng lili began to explain the production steps with tools, and more than a dozen children learned decently and orderly. "The difficulty of making is not high, because in fact we hope that students will have more interest in the culture behind the lanterns through making, from passive indoctrination to active absorption." Deng Lili said that when she designed the course, she also integrated dance, homework and other content, and children can perform string lantern dances with handmade lanterns, and record their feelings with words to help children have more understanding of the traditional culture of their hometown.
Cai Wenbin in the class is a regular visitor to the cultivation class, and his "cultivation reading" enlightenment comes from the elective "Into Liu Bowen" a year ago. "In that class, we read and studied liu bowen's story, and we also made up a small theater, and I played the bodyguard next to Liu Bowen, who was the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, and his bodyguard was also very good." Cai Wenbin now talks about Liu Bowen's head, but not long ago he didn't know anything about this "First Strategist of the Ming Dynasty" who came out of Wencheng. "After acting in the textbook drama, I felt that Liu Bowen was really a powerful big person, and I found a lot of his poetry and stories to read on my own." In his childish voice, he could hear his full pride in having such a big man in his hometown.
On November 13, the members of the "Education Ring Wenxing" wind collection group walked into Wencheng, and in this cultivation and reading hall, they were attracted by the "local" atmosphere of Wencheng everywhere. Bamboo weaving, liuji legend, folk nursery rhymes, special vegetable cultivation, yellow candy... These characteristic local resources, through the interpretation of the teachers of Eryuan Town Center School, have been designed into "5" rural sub-course brackets: "weaving on the fingertips", "fertile soil", "Wencheng on the tip of the tongue", "entering Liu Bowen", "folk customs and customs to see Wencheng". The curriculum is arranged in a spiral from the second grade to the sixth grade, and each course is based on the operability of the course content, the student's learning situation and the student's development law.
At the end of a class, the children receive medals from the teacher with "ploughing passbooks", and at the end of the semester, the children with more medals will become "course stars" and redeem them for physical prizes.
"There are many contents in the cultivation class that we often watched the elderly do when we were young, but we never had the opportunity to try it. Without such a course, many stories of intangible cultural heritage and historical celebrities would probably be nowhere to be heard by children today. The members of the group took advantage of the gap between the courses to try and experience the cultivation and reading classes.