When the golden autumn arrived as promised, we ushered in the ‘National Mandarin Promotion Publicity Week’, referred to as ‘Mandarin Promotion Week’. This year is the 24th Mandarin Promotion Week, the theme of which is ‘We Speak Mandarin to Eulogize the Great Achievements of the Century, and Standard Characters Write a New Chapter of the Times.’ Anqing Foreign Language School closely followed the theme, meticulously formulated the activity plan of this promotion week, carefully organized colorful promotion activities, and created a good promotion atmosphere on campus, which was not only loved by students and teachers, but also carried forward the traditional Chinese culture.
In the first place, we recite classics and promote Mandarin to the end.
In daily life, the promotion and popularization of the national standard language is the communication needs of people from different regions and different cultural backgrounds. Every morning, when we entered the campus and met each other, we would greet each other in Mandarin, and the cordial greetings would fill our hearts with infinite warmth. In class, the shining sentences of clear Mandarin and the standardized Chinese characters made our class a beautiful scenery. It turned out that students carefully prepared programs for everyone. For example, the lower grade students held recitations and story-telling competitions. The voice of the children is clear and sweet with clear articulation and a mellow and full tune, which let everyone appreciate the artistic charm of classical Chinese culture, and deeply moved every teacher and student present. Therefore, everyone responded with warm applause, which pushed the atmosphere to a climax.
In the second place, students should write meticulously and be a man of honor and integrity.
Writing well is not done in a day, but by perseverance. Since the last school year, our school has carried out the activity of practicing calligraphy and extracting beautiful essays every semester, which has been continued up to now, and benefited everyone a lot. Specifically, let us look at the hard pen calligraphy by intermediate grade students who wrote carefully. The horizontal and vertical strokes are immature yet meticulous, neat and pleasing. On the other hand, the teachers made an inspection tour back and forth. If the students wrote well, the teachers would write the five-pointed star next to the grid as encouragement; If there was a slight deficiency in students' writing, the teachers would patiently write the standard characters next to the new ones.
In the third place, we write standard characters to eliminate wrongly written characters.
In combination with social practice activities, the senior grade students guided the students to check the improper use of words, find wrongly written characters hidden in them, take photos and register them, such as the improper use of words in unit signs, shop signs, signs and billboards in main streets around home and school, including the traditional Chinese characters, wrongly written or mispronounced characters, variant Chinese characters, words with incomplete forms and pinyin in night scene text facilities, place names, street names, nameboards and so on.
Furthermore, Anqing Foreign Language School encouraged and guided students to push the Mandarin promotion work to their families, use their own knowledge to correct the phenomenon of wrong word use with their own little hands holding the big hands of mom and dad, grandpa and grandma so that they could understand the meaning of speaking Mandarin and writing standard words.
Therefore, every teacher and student should take active actions. Let us start from around us, start from the details, speak ‘Mandarin’, be the messengers of civilization, write ‘standard words’, and contend for green homework. What’s more, on the road of popularizing Mandarin, let us work together to strengthen the consciousness of standard writing, enhance the cultural taste of the school, carry forward national culture, set up the national spirit, and let Mandarin go hand in hand with the education and teaching of Anqing Foreign Language School and the construction of spiritual civilization.