Our annual ‘Chinese Culture Day’ event has been successfully rolled out on 19 January. The School was richly filled with Chinese New Year festive atmosphere with traditional decorations.   Most students dressed in colorful Chinese costumes to celebrate and experience the aesthetic of Chinese unique culture and traditions.

The theme this year, the Six Arts, namely, Rites, Music, Archery, Chariotry, Calligraphy and Mathematics enable students an opportunity to know and experience the six basic talents which ancient scholars were required to master according to the old Chinese education system. 

Activities include:

1.The ‘Six Arts’ booth games – ‘NLW Archery’,

•  ‘Flying Pegasus (Drones), ‘Magic Writings’ and ‘Colorful Puzzles’ allow students to learn the Archery, Chariotry, Calligraphy and Mathematics in the Six Arts;
• Photo-shooting areas themed ‘Rites’, ‘Music’ and ‘Archery’ were also set up respectively for students to play roles as ancient schoolchild, which enhances their interests towards the Six Arts. Parent volunteers’ also prepared a Folk Craft booth which teaches students to create flour doll crafts

2.‘Rites’, ‘Music’ and ‘Chariotry’ Crafts –

• students learn and deepen their understandings towards the Six Arts by creating ‘Ancient Costumes’, ‘Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments’ and ‘Ancient Carriage’ models, which bring more impressive images to our students.

3.Wishing tangerines –

• students wrote their New Year’s resolutions, tied them with wishing tangerines and threw them as higher as possible onto the ‘NLW Wishing Tree’ to wish more luck!

4.Chinese Orchestra Performance –

• traditional Chinese New Year songs entitled ‘Gong Xi Gong Xi (Congratulations)’ and ‘Xi Yang Yang (Happiness)’ performed by our students offer their fellows an opportunity to enjoy the Chinese music and explore various traditional Chinese musical instruments.

5.Chinese New Year Bilingual Picture Book –

• Picture Book sessions taught by our Net  teachers to dig deeper on knowing the profound  Chinese culture and traditions.

All the activities were purposely designed by the teacher team to lead our students to better understand the Chinese rich culture and they will definitely share their knowledge to their families,  friends and the people they meet in later years.

What a valuable and unforgettable life experience!

一年一度的「中華文化日」於1月19日圓滿結束，學校各處都佈置充滿農曆新年氣氛的裝飾，同學們穿著華服，體驗中華文化傳統之美。

今年以「六藝」為主題，即：禮、樂、射、御、書、數。讓學生們認識中國古代教育體系中要求學生掌握的六種基本才能。

活動內容包括：

1.「六藝」攤位遊戲，包括「禮和神射手」、「天馬行空」、「妙筆生揮」、「七彩拼拼樂」，學生從遊戲中學習射、御、書、數元素；更設置代表「禮」、「樂」及「射」的拍攝區，讓學生扮演古代學子，提升對六藝的興趣。最後還設有「民間工藝」攤位，感謝家長義工教授同學製作麵粉公仔。

2.製作「六藝」中代表禮、樂、御的手工，包括「古代服裝」和「中國傳統樂器」以及「古代馬車」模型，讓學生從做中學，加深對「六藝」的認識。

3.製作許願桔子，在「吳禮和許願樹」拋上屬於自己的桔子，許下新年願望，祈求好運！

4.中樂表演環節，讓學生認識各種中國傳統樂器，欣賞由學生表演的新年傳統樂曲《恭喜恭喜》和《喜洋洋》。

5.中國農曆新年雙語繪本教學，由本校外籍老師教授，讓學生深入了解中國博大精深的文化傳統。

所有的活動由教師團隊特意設計，讓學生更深入了解中國傳統文化，拓寬學生文化視野。他們一定會在以後的歲月裡與家人、朋友分享他們的知識。真是多麼寶貴而難忘的人生經歷啊！