In order to further improve students’ writing abilities, arouse their ardent love in the mother tongue as well as experience the splendid glamour of the Chinese characters, by virtue of the spring breeze in the ‘Happy Reading Month’, on the afternoon of 26th April, Anqing Foreign Language School’s Primary Section successfully held the Chinese Spelling Hero Competition among mid-grade students.
First of all, candidates in the arena contest came from Grades 3 and 4. Then, five contestants were selected through the preliminary contest. The arena competition consisted of two rounds. During the first round, other known as the knockout math, competitors had a dictation of 15 Chinese characters, followed by the on-site correction of the judges. Afterwards, the top ten students entered the second round according to the scores from high to low.
Second of all, the second round, other known as the championship race, comprised character pronunciation and pattern question types with four questions in total. Two players were eliminated in each topic. Furthermore, contestants wrote Chinese characters in sequence. Those who could not write according to the topics would be weeded out. After half-an-hour fierce competition, students Sun Weilian and Lu Huilin from Class 1, Grade 4 and Class 2, Grade 4 respectively were promoted to the finals, during which they wrote out the Chinese characters conveyed by gesture language one by one. Thus, the contest was abnormally intense. On the one hand, Sun Weilian possessed meticulous train of thought. On the other hand, Lu Huilin was imperturbable. Obviously, they were equally matched. The competitors’ brilliant performance won bursts of thunderous applause from judges and students. Eventually, ten students had the honor to win the first, second and third prizes respectively. More noticeably, student Li Simeng from Class 2, Grade 3 was awarded the title of ‘Little Expert of Writing’.
In summary, after the match, Principal Huang Zuning in charge of the Primary Department spoke highly of students’ remarkable performance during the contest and hoped that they would further elevate their interest in Chinese character writing abilities and Chinese learning, read more, learn how to read, continue to feel the charm of Chinese characters and experience the depth and breadth of traditional Chinese culture.