For pupils of Shanghai Luwan No.1 Center Experimental Primary School Huangpu Campus, the annual “Celebration of Chinese Festivals” activity is a big event ahead of the upcoming new year.
Having been held for 16 years, the activity aims to boost children’s understanding of traditional Chinese culture by involving them in role play, classics reciting, handicraft making and calligraphy.
Over the years, more and more parents have joined in the event. With each classroom decorated with paintings or calligraphy themed on classic literary works, such as famous poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties, The Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature and the Four Classical Operas, children and their parents and even grandparents join together to act out a section of the classics, like playing a time-travel game.
This year, supported by the 5G technology of Shanghai Unicom, one of the nation's largest telecom operators, the activity used the video form for the first time to record those amazing moments and share them on TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing social networking service platform.