Colorful Holidays in the Museum-Review of 2017 Summer Youth Education Activities

      The school has begun. Compared with the two months in the summer, the museum is quiet a lot. Let us review the grand occasion of the summer!

      This summer, the number of visitors to the Xuzhou Museum reached more than 100,000, and the number of underage audiences was 44,200, setting a new record for the number of summer audiences! More and more summer camp groups, youth extracurricular activities centers, and family parent-child tours are willing to enter the museum, learn about ancient Chinese history, and feel a strong humanistic historical atmosphere.

      A series of summer youth education activities carefully planned and organized by the Xuzhou Museum also attracted many children to participate, and families from Shanghai, Nanjing, Yangzhou and Lianyungang made a special trip to Xuzhou to participate in.

      The educators who organized the event were deeply moved!

      1. the first experience of traditional art

      The museum's aesthetic education has always hoped that everyone can open their eyes and open their arms to discover, pursue, and embrace all the beauty in life-do not seek the ultimate truth of beauty, only hope that everyone will find beauty. Beginning in early 2017, the Xuzhou Museum divided the classic Chinese traditional crafts into dozens of periods and introduced them to young friends. The two summer courses consisted of "The Han Dynasty Jade Crafts" and "The Four Treasures of the Traditional Arts" .

     On the morning of July 15th in the class of "Jade Governance in Han Dynasty with Traditional Artistic Experiences", the teacher Du Yihua began with the interpretation of "Jade is not crafted, and no tool" to tell everyone about the development and art evolution of ancient China. When people see that exquisite piece of jade in the museum, do they think of where the material comes from? Made by whom and with what tools? What use will these jade articles have in the end? Through the lectures, the children can feel the exquisiteness of traditional Chinese craftsmanship and the magic of art.

      On the morning of August 5th, Zhang Hui, an educator, asked: Do you know the origin of writing brushes? Do you know how the ancients made ink? What are the processes of ancient papermaking? What are the so-called "four Yans"? Although these study utensils have been used to this day, the development history and craftsmanship still arouse children's curiosity. The manual part of the event was to try the ancient method of papermaking-DIY, and make a beautiful piece of flower paper.

      2. Youth etiquette education

      In the morning of July 22, teacher Wei Xiaoting let the children appreciate the etiquette culture of the Han Dynasty and feel the beauty. At the same time, this activity also introduces the basic civilized etiquette of modern young people. Cultivating etiquette starting from childhood. The youth period is the key to develop good habits. Therefore, the civilized etiquette of youth needs to be strictly regulated and focused on training. Not only in school, but also in life, the society needs to pay special attention to regulating their behaviors.

      On the morning of July 29th, Zhang Yizhi, an educator of "Etiquette in Ancient Tea Culture", felt the millennium of Chinese tea culture in a tea atmosphere from a relatively unique perspective. Let young people walk into the world of tea, learn about tea culture, cultivate love, kindness and filial piety in the process of learning and drinking tea, develop good habits of modesty, friendliness, and civility, and pass on the Chinese traditional culture and virtues.

      3.“Gupeng Track”Youth History and Culture Education

      The course "Memory on Blue Stones-Images in Han Portrait Stones", which was launched on the morning of August 19th, is an integral part of the history and cultural education of young people in the Xuzhou Museum's youth brand education project "Gupeng Track". The so-called Han portrait stone is actually a building stone that engraved portraits on buildings such as the burial chamber, cemetery halls, tombs and temples in the Han Dynasty. In essence, the Han portrait stone is a sacrificial funeral art. The portrait stone is not only the pinnacle of the development of Chinese classical fine arts before the Han Dynasty, but also has a profound impact on the fine arts after the Han Dynasty. It occupies an important position in the history of Chinese art. Xuzhou has a very rich artistic theme of Han portrait stones. Ji Hangxue, the educator of this activity, told children to understand Han portrait stones through narration. At the same time, she guided children to participate in the production of Han Dynasty image color scratch painting.