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Middle School Chinese Department: Inheriting Millennial Elegance, Nurturing Growth Through Culture — A Report on the Shangsi Festival Cultural Practice Activity for Grade 6 Non-Native Chinese Learners

April 7, 2025

To deepen immersive education in traditional Chinese culture, the Grade 6 Non-Native Chinese teaching team organized a themed cultural practice from March 31 to April 1. The activity, featuring sachet-making, Hanfu dressing, and a botanical garden excursion, extended language learning into cultural immersion and nature exploration.


Classroom Roots: Cultural Decoding and Linguistic Enrichment
On March 31, teachers guided students through the "Past and Present of Shangsi Festival," introducing its literary traditions, including classical poetry, rituals like fuxi (purification ceremonies), and the game qushui liushang (floating wine cups on winding streams). Students hand-sewed mugwort sachets, identifying herbal scents while exploring the ancient wisdom of "dispelling impurities through fragrance" drawn from The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine. Trying on Hanfu became a vivid language lesson, as students deciphered terms like "cross-collar right closure" and "flowing cloud sleeves" through the garments’ intricate patterns. The session concluded with practicing traditional greetings—the yili (men’s clasped-hand bow) and wanfuli (women’s folded-hand curtsy)—bringing Confucian etiquette from the Analects to life. These activities laid the groundwork for the next day’s outdoor celebration.



Spring Epiphany: Cultural Confidence in Nature’s Poetry
On April 1, students adorned in Hanfu and sachets ventured into Shanghai Botanical Garden. Amid blooming cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, and magnolias, they transformed classroom knowledge into lived experience. Under canopies of pink and white petals, students improvised poems, recited verses with rhythmic cadence, and danced to light melodies, their youthful energy captured by teachers’ cameras.



Dressed in traditional attire, students solemnly performed the yili and wanfuli before the lens, freezing moments of timeless elegance that echoed China’s ritual heritage.



The pitch-pot game then ignited excitement as teams competed, arrows clinking into bronze vessels—a lively revival of the Confucian "gentleman’s game" from the Book of Rites, blending tradition with playful camaraderie.



As the event concluded, teachers awarded all participants with "Young Cultural Ambassador" certificates. This millennium-spanning cultural dialogue not only enhanced non-native students’ Chinese proficiency in multifaceted contexts but also bridged cross-cultural understanding, fostering cultural identity and stronger self-awareness through the power of tradition.



Written by Zhang Xinyi

Proofread by Chad Higgenbottom

Pictures by Xu Jing

Video by Mr. Johnson

Edited by Luo Cong

Reviewed by Chen Fan, Zhou Shengyuan，Luo Cong