The flowers of April are in full bloom, the perfect time for reading. April 23, 2022, marked the 27th “World Reading Day.” To better fulfill the library's role and create a vibrant scholarly atmosphere of “reading more, reading good books, and knowing how to read” throughout the region, Weiyang District Library took this opportunity to host the 16th “Xi'an Reading Month” series of activities under the theme of “Enjoying Chang'an, Looking Towards the Future, Filling Weiyang with Four Seasons of Book Fragrance.” The Deputy Director of the Weiyang District Culture, Tourism, and Sports Bureau Zhang Zhuo, the President of Little Readers Academy Xi'an Branch and the person in charge of Fan Deng Reading's Yan ‘Ta Service Center Wang Pinghui, and the Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of Xi'an Meteorological Bureau Liu Chang attended the event. The event included the launch ceremony of National Reading Month, a cultural exhibition themed “Qin Style and Han Elegance,” an exhibition of orchid paintings from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period, a shadow puppetry exhibit of intangible cultural heritage, and a “Wear Hanfu, Attend an Elegant Gathering, Experience Qin and Han Styles” obstacle course with prizes. The purpose of the event was to promote national reading, build a scholarly Weiyang, carry forward excellent traditional culture, and spread China's long-standing historical culture. The content of the event was rich and colorful, bringing a splendid cultural feast to citizens and readers.
In this educational activity themed “Chinese Spirit,” our school's educators always remembered their sacred mission and fully utilized and tapped into the educational functions of textbooks such as “Reading Classics of Chinese Recitation” and “The Disciple Rules.” Through themed reading and educational activities, teachers and students underwent a spiritual baptism together, and “Inheriting Classics and Promoting National Spirit” has taken root in every student's heart. In future work, we will continue to improve reading activities on the basis of our previous efforts, under the guidance and care of our superiors, to protect the healthy growth of students and play a greater educational role in this activity.
Books are the ladder of human progress. To enable every student to make friends with good books, hold hands with wisdom, and let books open the window to their hearts, broaden their horizons, and gain rich knowledge. At the same time, to create a “richly scholarly campus,” we will host a reading month activity themed “Bathed in Book Fragrance, Growing Healthily” to allow students to feel the joy of learning through reading, experience the fun of growing up, continuously enhance their taste in reading, and develop good reading habits, laying a foundation for lifelong development. Our school has specially designated October 20__ as the first “Scholarly Fragrance with Me” reading activity month.
On the 2nd, the “Poetic Nanshan · Ancient Style Appreciation” reading month themed activity was held in Nantou Ancient City, using a wealth of ancient poems as a carrier. It hosted a series of activities including “Poetry Appreciation Corridor,” “Ancient Poem Pavilion,” “Poetry Garden Party,” “Ancient Style Elegance · Hanfu Show and Photography,” and “Water in the Palm, Moon in Hand · Classical Poetry and Film Guest Sharing Session,” creating a poetry craze and enriching the spiritual and cultural life of citizens. It is known that this event is one of the key activities of the 10th Shenzhen Reading Month in Nanshan District, organized by the Propaganda Department of Nanshan District and hosted by Shenzhen Book City Nanshan.
From the perspective of presentation methods, the combination of mobile games and ancient style can be divided into several types nowadays: One type is short-term event-oriented, where there are events related to ancient style during specific times, such as the Hanfu series costumes in the dress-up game “Miracle Warm Warm”; another type is element innovation, packaging ancient style elements in terms of scenery, architecture, clothing, characters, etc.; and there is also thematic creation, where values, storylines, and historical settings all come from real historical times in ancient times, like “Sky's Edge Bright Moon Saber” and “Sword and Fairy Legend.”
This event was themed around Hanfu, with a wide range of content, including Hanfu parades, performances of national style, Han wedding ceremonies, markets of national style, ancient style script killings, and Hanfu costume changes, covering almost all activities that allow tourists to deeply experience Hanfu culture. The engaging and informative design attracted many enthusiasts of Hanfu and traditional culture to “check-in,” immersing everyone in it, crossing between past and present. Young men dressed in Hanfu wearing headbands, some holding fans, and women in flowing robes, some adorned with phoenix hairpins, moved gracefully, strolling within the cultural and creative park, complementing the ancient Naxi courtyard buildings, forming picturesque scenes of ancient style.
Books are the ladder of human progress! Following the idea of “full participation, school-based, teacher-student co-reading, and parent-child co-reading,” aiming to improve teachers' own qualities, we will conduct a teacher-student reading month activity in the campus with the theme of “Enjoying the Joy of Reading, Scholarly Fragrance Accompanying My Journey,” striving to create a scholarly campus and allowing good books to accompany students to grow healthily and happily. To ensure that the reading month activity is targeted and effective, thus further enhancing the cultural taste of the campus, this activity plan is specially formulated.
“Chinese Spirit” Themed Educational Reading Activity Work Summary – The “Chinese Spirit” themed educational reading activity uses textbooks such as “Reading Classics of Chinese Recitation” and “The Disciple Rules” as teaching materials. Through educational activities themed “Inheriting Classics, Promoting National Spirit,” it provides extensive young people with patriotic, collectivist, socialist education, and education on promoting the spirit of the times and national spirit, helping them enhance a sense of national pride and responsibility for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The “Emotions Full Moon, Heart Linked with the Motherland” National Day themed activities, painting coloring, flag-raising, LEGO robot display, talent shows, patriotic-themed reading meetings, and other colorful activities held at the Zhengding County (Zhengding New Area) Youth Palace can allow children and adults alike to enjoy the holidays; in Nan Gu Ancient Town, there will also be stunning Hanfu fashion shows, guzheng performances, “Dancing in the Ancient City” dance performances, and other events; during the National Day holiday, Wangquan Ancient Street will host the “Singing Praises of the Motherland” cultural activity, jointly celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the motherland.
April is the reading month of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Affiliated Orthopedic Hospital). To actively respond to the important spirit of Guangdong Province's “Promoting the Spirit of Great Medical Honesty and Enhancing the Ability to Serve Traditional Chinese Medicine,” the theme of this reading month is “A Doctor's Benevolent Heart, Great Medical Honesty” and “Tracing Back to the Source and Studying Classics.” To support this event, the hospital hosted a competition for reciting classics of traditional Chinese medicine on the afternoon of April 2, and various departments of the hospital responded enthusiastically, with over ten participants.