This Qixi Festival is a new event... Is there any other connotation? In the First Bay of Pujiang River, Qixi is not only a celebration of love culture | tradition | pageant
A civilized and elegant parent-child lecture, a museum humanities walk, a traditional Qixi cultural market, a Chinese traditional collective wedding, a literary evening full of ancient charm... On August 22, the Qixi traditional culture festival and the "I have a date with civilization" civilization creation theme day activity jointly hosted by East China Normal University and Wujing Town, Minhang District was held in East China Normal University, presenting a new Qixi cultural event for people.
For a long time, the Qixi Festival has been given a romantic and lingering tone. However, according to Tian Zhaoyuan, a Chinese folklore expert and professor at East China Normal University, Qixi not only sings about love, but also contains more important meanings. "Couple reunion and family harmony are also important themes of the Qixi Festival. In the legend of" Niulang and Zhinv ", the Niulang carries two children with a shoulder pole to chase the captured Zhinv, which contains the meaning of looking for maternal love. Qixi is not only a holiday for lovers, but also a holiday for parents to accompany their children to spend Qixi Festival, which has profound practical significance."
Today's event attracted 25 groups of parent-child families to sign up and participate. At the first stop, they listened to the special lecture "Talking about Ancient Qixi Culture" brought by Ni Chunjun, associate professor of the Chinese Department of East China Normal University. Through a poetry culture class, experts tell the humanistic stories about Qixi, infiltrate traditional culture into modern life, and make adults and children listen with interest.
"Magpies are birds that bring good luck to humans, while larks represent happiness and liveliness..." "Look, this specimen is called a crescent bear. Why is it called that?" "Does a fox really have fox odor? Yes, but it doesn't always have fox odor..." At the Biology Museum of East China Normal University, the teacher showed the children various lifelike specimens and hands-on experience to understand how organisms evolved. They learned how reptiles planned their journey to the sea to return to the ocean, and further understood paleontology.
It is a traditional custom of Qixi to beg for skillful skills. The Qixi traditional culture market launched tonight not only gathers ancient traditional games such as wood shooting, throwing pots and cuju, but also meticulously arranges intangible cultural heritage exhibition and experience projects such as straw weaving, filigree enamel, seal cutting, couplets, textile techniques, crochet weaving, begging and sewing. Teachers and students and their families immersively experience a traditional skill and feel the unique charm of traditional culture by visiting the traditional market.
At the Minhang Campus of East China Normal University, there is a Shangyi Bridge on the Cherry River. It was first built in the Ming Dynasty and was donated by the Jinshi Jiang Xingzhong to facilitate the travel of local people. For over a hundred years, Jiang Gong's act of building a bridge has been praised and promoted by later generations, becoming a historical story in Minhang and even Shanghai. At today's cultural evening, teachers and students from Meng Xiancheng Academy of East China Normal University recreated the magnificent scene of Jiang Xingzhong's gathering and recitation of poetry at the Nine Elders of Yinghu over 500 years ago in front of Shangyi Bridge through scene interpretation.
In addition to promoting the revitalization of traditional culture through innovation, the teachers and students of East China Normal University also leverage their professional advantages by developing community courses, arranging cultural exhibitions, and organizing cultural walking summer camps. They have launched community courses such as "Shanghai's One River, One River Place Name Culture", forming a series of school local civilization co education brand projects. Today, East China Normal University and Wujing Town jointly launched the "Shijing Youyue" Civilization Creation Joint Action Month. In the following month, young people from both schools and the local area will jointly carry out nine civilization creation activities, including "Classmates, Start Learning and Study Early" and "Civilization Creation Youth Observation Team". They will go deep into street and town communities to carry out activities such as urban creation, theoretical learning, civic self-cultivation, rural culture, and volunteer services.
It is reported that recently, Minhang District signed a new round of comprehensive cooperation framework agreement with East China Normal University. According to the agreement, both parties will strengthen party building and joint construction, further deepen the strategic cooperation between the district and school, and jointly promote the construction of the "Big Zero Bay" science and technology innovation policy source functional area. In the future, Wujing Town will further strengthen its close cooperation with East China Normal University in exploring and promoting regional industrial innovation and development, attracting and cultivating high-end talents, strengthening school local cooperation in education, and empowering social governance construction, in order to achieve deep integration of school and local development.
