Text: Yangcheng Evening News reporter Li Chunwei.
Picture: Lee Hon Fai.
Lion and dragon dances, talent shows, intangible cultural heritage temple fairs, ......On February 20th, Chaotian Primary School in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou presented a high-quality traditional cultural feast that integrates the characteristics of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, is full of Cantonese style, and is full of the flavor of the happy New Year.
The temple fair kicked off with a lively and wonderful lion dance and dragon dance performance, and the small lion dance was the result of the students' participation in the interdisciplinary theme study of traditional culture, all of which were traditional patterns painted by everyone one by one, expressing their joy for the arrival of the New Year. With the rhythm of the first class, the lion and the colorful dragon are in a variety of postures and full of fun, which won the cheers and applause of the students.
Chaotian Primary School has been deeply cultivating traditional culture, committed to providing students with hierarchical and high-quality courses, and carried out characteristic school-based courses such as "Tongwen Lecture Hall", "Intangible Cultural Heritage Culture on Campus" and "Traditional Chinese Medicine Research" in promoting interdisciplinary theme learning.
According to reports, in the art classroom, students learned about lion dancing culture and designed and made lion heads through group cooperation; In physical education class, students learn the basic movements and techniques of lion dance; In English class, students choose legends, customs, or delicacies from traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival according to their interests, create traditional festival cultural stories, and make three-dimensional and two-dimensional picture books. The interdisciplinary theme study fully integrates courses such as ethics and the rule of law, Chinese, English, physical education, fine arts, information technology, and labor, leading students to appreciate the unique charm of "lion dancing culture" in practical activities, cultivating a sense of national cultural identity, pride and historical mission, and cultivating modern Chaotian students with "the same literary heart, family and national conditions, and world vision", so as to achieve the goal of cultivating people with virtue. At the same time, it can also effectively cultivate students' ability to actively cooperate in exploration, research, innovation and comprehensive problem-solving.
In the afternoon, the campus temple fair and red scarf charity sale were held, and the students brought a variety of traditional cultural experience projects with unique characteristics of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Booths are located in every corner of the campus, and students wear traditional costumes to shuttle between the booths, and have a meeting with traditional culture across time and space. In the temple fair, collect the seals of the dragon of "Happy Chaoyuan": Dragon and Horse Spirit (Fumanzhang Chapter), Dragon Teng Tiger Leap (Annunciation Chapter), Dragon Spirit and Tiger Fierce (Peace Chapter), Flying Dragon in the Sky (Wish Chapter), Fish Leap Dragon Gate (Ideal Chapter), Jiaolong Deshui (Progress Chapter), Living Dragon and Living Tiger (Vitality Chapter), Dragon Xiang Phoenix Dance (Talent Chapter).
The booths of traditional culture integration disciplines and intangible cultural heritage display and experience booths are even more climaxing, such as Guangzhou dialect, window flower cutting, olive carving, red envelopes combined with the knowledge of Yuan Jiaofen, "Chinese puzzles" combined with tangrams, and the restoration ......of the Rubik's Cube on the one side of the solar termEducation originates from books, but also from life; Knowledge comes from the classroom, and it should be combined with practice. Each discipline digs deep into the roots and soul of Cantonese culture in a way that children like to see, and deeply roots the Cantonese cultural gene in the child's heart, so that children can like and fall in love with traditional culture and taste the strong flavor of Guangzhou. At the same time, students have improved their interdisciplinary comprehensive literacy such as science, moral accomplishment, language use, mathematical thinking, and cultural inheritance through practical experience.
According to the person in charge of the school, Chaotian Primary School has been committed to actively creating a series of Cantonese cultural heritage brand activities represented by calligraphy, olive carving, Cantonese ancient speaking, etc., so that students can find, explore, innovate, inherit and develop Cantonese culture in life, outside the classroom and around them. The very year-old campus temple fair not only allows students to play middle school, learn to do, and understand by doing, but also gain a sense of happiness and belonging to Chinese culture.