Text/Picture: Liu Yutao

  In recent years, various colleges and universities in Gansu have built an education system for comprehensive training of “ethics, intelligence, physical education, art and labor”, deepened the reform of the education system, changed the curriculum, and improved students' use of hands and brains by adding practical courses, enriching the content of physical education courses, and strengthening labor literacy. Ability, improve the implementation mechanism of Lide Shuren, and gradually form a higher-level talent training system.

  Below, let's take a look at the interesting courses in Gansu universities.

It is understood that the doors are all hot styles, and they can’t get in. Some course students take three years to choose.

Dunhuang Painted Craft Plate Making Class: "It's class, have you brought your nail polish?"

The picture shows students using nail polish to make Dunhuang painted craft plates.

  Lanzhou Jiaotong University's Dunhuang color-drawing craft plate making class is an open experimental project of "student-innovative project-guided" application by a team of students, and an open laboratory project of 8-64 hours will be opened in a semester.

The picture shows students using nail polish to make Dunhuang painted craft plates.

The picture shows students using nail polish to make Dunhuang painted craft plates.

  Liang Yan, an associate professor at the School of Art and Design of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, said that the Dunhuang color-painting craft plate is to extract the Dunhuang algae pattern and use the brittle drawing process of ceramic glass.

In the beginning, the students used acrylic paint to paint, but the cheap raw materials were not bright enough. Later, they explored and replaced them with relatively cheap nail polish, which was bright and beautiful.

The picture shows the display of Dunhuang painted craft plates made by students.

  "Don't put your nail polish on your hands. It's a waste. Keep the painted plates." Kou Zixi, a graduate student at the School of Art and Design of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, said that she likes making handicrafts. This course in school has exposed her to this handicraft.

Learning crafts at school gives more possibilities for the future.

In the future, if you have the opportunity, you may create a studio to turn your hobbies into an ability to support your family.

  "In the past, we learned more and tended to computer design, and now we have hands-on operations to make Dunhuang color-painting craft plates, which are more sensitive in color matching and color perception." said Yang Lili, a student at Lanzhou Jiaotong University.

The picture shows the display of Dunhuang painted craft plates made by students.

  Some students sighed with emotion: It’s a waste of hand-painting, more than 20 yuan per bottle, several bottles per plate, save some!

  Netizen: Live life into art!

Yarn knitting class: "Take a yarn class!" "How did you know that you have a yarn class?!"

The picture shows students attending a "knitting class".

  In order to promote students' ability to use their hands and brains, Northwest Normal University offers a class of wool handicrafts.

The teaching time is 18 weeks, 2 hours a week, which is a public optional course for the whole school.

Students can earn 2 credits if they pass the examination.

The picture shows a male student knitting a key case.

  "There were more than 400 people in the school who signed up, and more than 70 people were selected by lottery. I feel very lucky that a lesson is hard to find." said Li Wenpeng, a sophomore majoring in Chinese Language and Literature at Northwest Normal University.


The picture shows the teacher instructing students to knit a key bag.

  Netizen: Boys are so cute to wear needles and hooks!

  Netizen: I wanted to learn too much. At that time, my grandma taught me, but in the end I didn't want to talk to me!

The picture shows students taking a manual class.

  Netizen: Happy, let's knit wool, unhappy, let's remove wool!

  Some netizens also praised: Chinese craftsmanship!

Handicraft class: hemp rope, engraving knife belt, making a wall decoration, engraving a chapter, I want to be unique!

The picture shows the Dunhuang series of seals made by students.

  The Dunhuang series of seal carving is an open laboratory project of 8-64 hours in Lanzhou Jiaotong University in one semester.

The picture shows the Dunhuang series of seals made by students.


The picture shows the Dunhuang series of seals made by students.

  The Dunhuang series of seal carvings rely on the prototypes of Dunhuang murals and colored sculptures to carry out design and processing, expressing Dunhuang art in the form of manual seal carving.

The picture shows students making handmade wall decorations.

  Handmade mural making is a training project focusing on hand weaving in the "Urban Public Art Design" course of Lanzhou Jiaotong University.

The course is a required course for environmental design majors, 3 credits and 48 hours.

The picture shows the teacher instructing students to weave wall decorations.

  In the course, the students mainly used fiber textile materials as the production object, and designed and completed the work through various knot weaving techniques such as knotting, tying, locking, tying, rowing, and falling.

The picture shows the teacher showing the wall decoration works completed by the students.

  Hao Kaili, a student from the School of Art and Design of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, said that he had studied traditional crafts such as lacquer art, oil painting and weaving in his undergraduate years. Graduate students began to learn wall decoration, training students to understand, design and apply public art in indoor and outdoor environments.

Archery lesson: bend the bow and shoot the big eagle, be a hero!


  Holding a bow, throwing an arrow, hooking the string, opening the bow, aiming, releasing...

  Northwest Normal University offers archery elective courses.

The picture shows students taking an archery lesson.

  In class, the students were dressed in Han clothes, holding bows and arrows in one hand, lined up, and held bows and arrows under the teacher's command.

This class combines the cultural tradition of traditional Chinese archery sports "to cultivate morality by shooting and to observe morality" with physical exercise, so that students can experience the profoundness of Chinese rituals while exercising their bodies.

The picture shows the archery teacher giving a demonstration to the students.

  Zhang Yang, a teacher who teaches archery courses, said that college students should cultivate healthy physique, good exercise habits, and perseverance.

The picture shows students taking an archery lesson.

The picture shows a girl archery.

  Cheng Yan, a student at the Law School of Northwest Normal University, said that because she likes traditional culture, Cheng Yan chooses archery classes in her school.

When she first started practicing, she often scratched, and now she can hit the bullseye steadily, and her movements are consistent and beautiful.

  Netizen: One of a thousand interesting electives!

  Netizen: When will my "riding lesson" start?

  Some netizens said: The return of traditional culture!

Roller skating class: the feeling of flying, give me a wheel, I want to spin, jump, cool!

The picture shows students taking a roller skating class.

  In the winter playground, students wear helmets and knee pads, and practice jumping, circling piles and turning in the field.

Northwest Normal University opened a roller skating course, introduced by the roller skating teacher, a total of more than 300 students signed up, and girls accounted for the majority.

The picture shows students taking a roller skating class.

  The female classmate said that roller skating is very cool and is a skill I have always wanted to learn. The university has such an opportunity and must not miss it.

Yoga class: I want to be quiet...

The picture shows students attending a yoga class.

  Northwest Normal University offers yoga courses.

The picture shows students attending a yoga class.

The picture shows students attending a yoga class.

The picture shows students attending a yoga class.

  Guo Xiuwen, deputy dean of the School of Physical Education of Northwest Normal University, said that in addition to letting students master sports skills, the most important thing is to let students develop the habit of physical exercise.

In addition to teaching students what to do, physical education must also teach students how to exercise after leaving the teacher and enjoy the happiness that physical education brings. This is also the original intention of the school physical education curriculum reform.

 Dunhuang Mural Copy Lesson: Don’t throw away the ash at the bottom of the pot, paint paintings become works of art

The picture shows students making Dunhuang murals using pot bottom ash, shell powder and other paints.

(Photo courtesy of Northwest Normal University)

  This is the "Dunhuang Mural Copy Course" of Northwest Normal University. In the class, students use pot bottom ash, shell powder and other paints to experience the process of making Dunhuang murals through copying and coloring.


The picture shows students making Dunhuang murals using pot bottom ash, shell powder and other paints.

(Photo courtesy of Northwest Normal University)

  Some netizens said: People play ashes into art, and I always wiped my face when I was young.

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Handicraft class: "Look at me, the characters come alive!"

The picture shows students making cloisonne and colored sand craft discs.

  Lanzhou Jiaotong University's "Cloisonné gold silk colored sand craft plate production" uses metal wire and natural colored sand as raw materials, uses the color of natural colored sand as the color of the screen, and uses metal wires to inlay the outline of the pattern.

The picture shows students making cloisonne and colored sand craft discs.

  Taking the Dunhuang flying sky as the theme, colorful sand is used to vividly display the historical culture and style of Dunhuang.

The picture shows the cloisonné gold silk colored sand craft plate work.

  Liang Yan, associate professor of the School of Art and Design of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, said that the school is based on the background of engineering universities and deeply penetrates the local cultural soil, trying to create a unique trinity of "teaching, creation, and competition" professional talents innovative practice mode, and create applied advanced art that meets the needs of society Design professionals.

The picture shows Liang Yan, an associate professor of the School of Art and Design of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, instructing students to make a Dunhuang painted craft plate.

  Over the years, all schools in Gansu have adhered to the principle of cultivating morality, implementing the education policy of "ethics, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor", and building an education system for comprehensive training of morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor. Talent, "physical" fitness, "beauty" shape the soul, "work" to help dreams.

  Pan Jinghu, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of Northwest Normal University, said that in the past, students' quality development activities were mostly carried out through clubs, extracurricular activities, and social practices, and very few students benefited.

Now that these courses are included in the talent training plan, all courses can be curricularized. Only when students complete the course hours and earn enough credits can they pass the assessment and promote the overall development of students.