The significance of the ceremony of the opening of the pen

1, the combination of ancient and modern, with the characteristics of the times

In the participation of the ceremony of the opening of the pen in terms of clothing, the Palace of the "open pen" related to the meaning of the customized small Dr. suit, rather than copying the ancient Xiu Cai wear clothing, closer to real life.

2, enlightenment education easy to understand

Enlightenment teacher to do on the respect for teachers, filial piety education, instead of reciting the ancient text, but said more easy to understand, catering to the needs of children.

3. Calligraphy

At the opening ceremony, the calligraphy teacher held the brush, dipped it in ink, and wrote the word "man" on the hanging rice paper. The character "人" is a Chinese character with simple strokes and far-reaching meaning, implying that learning to be a human being is the most important thing in the initiation stage of life.

4, send blessings

Then the teachers walked to the children with vermilion sand in their hands, and put a red mark on the middle of their foreheads, blessing them with bright eyes and a clear heart from now on. Mothers and fathers could also give cards filled with blessings to their children.

The significance of the ceremony should be recognized

Wearing Chinese dress, pointing the vermilion sand, writing brush strokes ...... is another year of the opening season, some schools will be the newborns The first step in the process is to make sure that you have the right tools and the right tools for the right job. The report about the enrollment of the "opening ceremony" has also been in the press, and was crowned "traditional etiquette" of the name. In this regard, some scholars bluntly said that the so-called "open brush ceremony" is not a Chinese tradition, but in recent years, "local creation of etiquette"

In recent years, at the beginning of the school year, for the elementary school newborns to hold "open brush ceremony Probably by learning from each other, the "opening ceremony" has formed a relatively complete set of standardized procedures, including the crown, Zhu Sha Kai Zhi, drumming wise, enlightenment tracing red and other links. Through this unique ceremony, let the children know the book, learn to behave, its positive significance is indisputable.

Now, this ceremony has been questioned. Peng Lin, a professor of history at Tsinghua University's School of Humanities, said bluntly, "the so-called 'opening ceremony' is a ritual created in recent years at the local level". In view of this, there is a need to explore the origins of the "opening ceremony", on the basis of academic research on its origins.

However, if this denies the significance of the ritual for today's educated people, it is not without fault. Because the current "opening ceremony" is not completely out of the blue, but in the draw on the basis of excellent cultural traditions, reasonably injected into the modern people accepted the content of the innovative move. Cinnabar, for example, both for the child to point mole (Chi) to open the meaning of wisdom, but also to bless the child's healthy growth of the symbol. It is also natural to incorporate traditional elements such as wearing Chinese dress and writing brush characters into the ceremony of "opening the brush". In a certain sense, the "opening of the pen ceremony" widely implemented by schools around the world, is reflecting the educators of the traditional culture of the memory and inheritance, has its own unique value. If someone thinks that some kind of ritual must have to check the evidence to be able to line, and even in all things can only copy the ancient set, but reflects the stereotypes of the concept of consciousness, pedantry, with the times beat out of tune.

As a social activity to train people, school education needs to "open the pen ceremony" such a ceremony, to enhance the influence of education, infectious. Through this solemn ceremony, let the children feel the power of school education like rain, really feel the role of self-transformation, so as to take a solid step forward in life.

The significance of the opening ceremony3

The opening of the pen is the ancient Chinese term for the beginning of literacy in the form of rituals, commonly known as "breaking the Meng".

The ritual of the opening of the pen "Zhu Sha Qi Zhi" had been in history disappeared for many years, but in the morning of February 28, Guangzhou, more than 20 people between the ages of 4 and 7 years old. Children gathered at the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Seminar Center (former Panyu Palace) to experience the ancient "brush ceremony". This group of children ready to enter the stage of education, in the plausible understanding and ancient Chinese traditional culture to a "close contact". It is reported that this is the first time in Guangzhou to hold a ceremony for schoolchildren.

In the ceremony to participate in the opening of the clothing, should use our traditional national costume - Hanfu. Teachers can wear Zhu Zi deep clothes, male students can wear straight train, female students wear 襦裙; initiation teacher in doing about honoring teachers, filial piety and parents education, the teacher is not directly recite ancient texts, but the article will be explained in a more popular and easy to understand, catering to the needs of the children. At the end of the opening ceremony, the Palace also arranged for the schoolchildren to watch a special puppet show, a combination of static and dynamic.

Modern opening ceremony procedures

1, the crown: 9:00 a.m., the schoolchildren changed into a long doctoral suit, put on the "official hat".

2, Pingbu Qingyun: schoolchildren on the first step of the opening ceremony - Pingbu Qingyun bridge tour of Panchi. Schoolchildren lined up in two rows of columns, led by the staff across the Qingyun Bridge facing the Palace, heralding the future "Pingbu Qingyun". Qingyun bridge across the pond, the pond has a number of carp, the children around the pond for a week, to "carp leap Dragon Gate" meaning. Afterwards, the children stepped into the Minglun Hall, listened to the staff tell the story of Confucius' dream of the unicorn the night before the birth of Confucius and the story of Confucius learning the qin, and bowed to Confucius under the leadership of the teacher of the initiation, to accept the teachings of the teacher of the initiation.

3, Scholar's Towel Washing

4, Cinnabar Enlightenment: The Enlightenment Teacher used cinnabar to light a red mole in the middle of the forehead of the schoolchildren, also known as the opening of the eyes of heaven, implying that the children from now on are clear-eyed and bright-minded, and are good at reading and reading well. Some of the schoolchildren look very happy; some are a little froze do not understand what the teacher did in their own head, can not help but touch with their hands, look; there are children were pointing some fear, a look to cry out.

5, ring the enlightenment bell

6, enlightenment tracing: the vast majority of schoolchildren in the enlightenment of the teacher's instructions very seriously tracing, but also some children, because the age of too young, even the brush do not know how to grasp, some grasp is not stable, after grabbing do not know how to drop the pen.

7, wishing under the golden osmanthus tree: the school palace for each schoolchildren to prepare an auspicious banner, and with a rope tied to a kumquat, so that the schoolchildren will be thrown on the banner on the golden osmanthus tree, a good wish will come true in the future.