Suzhou Middle School teacher led the students of the Poetry Workshop to write poems to celebrate the Winter Olympics
"I don't want students' talents to be used only in exams"
"Visit Renyin in spring, the snow drifts and the sun falls, and the five-ringed snow is warm and fragrant.
The sound of the bird's nest is boiling, and it gathers exotic places and special prescriptions.
Tens of thousands of screen illusions, watching the Winter Olympics and the prosperity of the country.
On the ice rink, Chinese sons and daughters compete with the world for glory.
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This is a poem written by Zhou Jiahui, a sophomore from Suzhou Middle School, more than 1,000 kilometers away, after the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, recording the grand occasion of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in his mind.
Not only Zhou Jiahui, but also fifty or sixty members of the Suzhou Middle School Poetry Workshop, under the guidance of their teacher Min Fanjun, expressed their enthusiasm for the Beijing Winter Olympics in poems.
"The 24th Beijing Winter Olympics has been successfully concluded, but the enthusiasm for chasing dreams that it has aroused in the hearts of young people will continue to surge." Min Fanjun said in an interview with the Beijing News reporter that this creation reflects the new era of China The spirit of youth.
"A platform for students who like poetry to create and communicate"
Beijing News: How did you think of using poetry to express your expectations for the Winter Olympics?
Min Fanjun: There is a poetry workshop in Suzhou Middle School, and I am the instructor of the club.
When there are major events, such as the Beijing Winter Olympics and Suzhou's anti-epidemic, I will assign "homework" to everyone, and each person will write some poems.
On February 6th, shortly after the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, I set up the topic through the WeChat group, with the theme of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and completed the creation in a week.
The first rule is to use the word "Man Ting Fang", mainly because the word "Man Ting Fang" itself has a good mouth color and is a more positive and high-pitched tone.
The second one uses the rhyme of "Qiyang".
In fact, there are about fifty or sixty people in our team.
However, some students may not write them out, and finally put together a total of 14 poems.
After submitting it, I made some adjustments to some inappropriate words, and gave you a little touch up. The changes are not very big, and they are basically their original creations.
Beijing News: How did this poetry club come to be?
Why have this idea?
Min Fanjun: In 2010, Zhang Xin, the then principal of Suzhou Middle School, was a lover of poetry, and he wrote it himself.
One day he approached me and asked if I could start a society for writing classical poetry?
I happened to have this idea too, and I was very happy. We founded the "South Garden Club" together, and then founded the Poetry Couplet Association among the students, which is the predecessor of the Suzhou Middle School Poetry Workshop.
Principal Zhang also participated in some activities of the club.
What I thought at the time was that I had been in Suzhou Middle School for more than 20 years in total, teaching high school Chinese all the time.
Our Chinese exams only test the recitation and appreciation of classical poetry, and never test the creation of poetry, and there are always students in each grade who like poetry, and they do not have a stage for creation.
So we set up this community, mainly to give them a platform for creation and communication.
I myself prefer poetry. It is too wasteful to see students’ personal strengths not being brought into play, and I don’t want students’ talents to be used only in exams.
Moreover, writing poetry should be learned from a young age, and it will be slow to accept new things when you get older.
I want to cultivate a group of young poetic writing talents.
Beijing News: What activities does the club usually do?
Min Fanjun: Every week, I will take about an hour of extracurricular time to give students an offline training.
Explain the basics of classical poetic meter.
We have a dedicated training room, right inside the library.
There is a mountain in our school with a history of nearly 1,000 years.
There is a Taoshan Pavilion on the mountain, which can also be used as a classroom. It is very beautiful.
There are three pools in the school, a road mountain, small bridges and flowing water, and ancient trees.
Most of them are camphor trees, as well as cherry trees, willows, locust trees, lilac trees, magnolias, white magnolias, and red magnolias, which are particularly lively.
There are oleanders in summer.
The maple trees are red and red in autumn, and they are very beautiful.
We also have a publication called "Small Window in the South Garden", which publishes an issue every semester, which has been going on for 12 years.
About 200 poems are published in each issue, mainly the classical poems created by our students.
My selection criteria are that the content must be positive, reflect the real emotional experience in students' life, and meet the metric requirements.
Usually, everyone has some feelings, write about the scenery, write about their own life, you can.
Write it and send it to the group, everyone can communicate with each other.
We sometimes organize 20 or 30 people to go out to collect scenery, stay in the mountains or other places for one night, chat, eat, and do something creative when we come back.
For example, we have been to Meihuawu in Hangzhou, which happens to be the tea picking season in spring.
It happened to be a moonlit night when we visited the West Lake. We took a walk on the Su Causeway with the bright moon hanging high, which was really poetic.
We have also been to Tianmu Mountain Grand Canyon, Yangzhou Slender West Lake and so on.
"Chinese class should integrate aesthetic value"
Beijing News: How was the process of compiling textbooks such as "Suzhou Middle School Traditional Culture Popularization Reader"?
What kind of educational philosophy does it reflect?
Min Fanjun: At the beginning of the club's establishment, I wrote handouts and made courseware for training.
In 2015, I simply integrated these contents and began to compile the textbook "Suzhou Middle School Traditional Culture Popularization Reader", which was used for each session.
As far as I know, there was no similar textbook in Jiangsu Province at that time, so our traditional poetry education started relatively early.
At that time, I organized the materials while I was in class, and it took me more than a year to revise it. It was printed in 2017, and the full text has 300,000 words.
The writing process is not difficult. I have two classes a day. After finishing the homework, I usually just sit in front of the computer, sort out the basic content of traditional culture, and systematize the bits and pieces, aiming at universality and common sense. .
In this reader, I have selected many chapters related to the textbook chapters to expand.
For example, the textbook says that Su Shi's "Nian Nujiao: Chibi Nostalgia" was created when Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou.
The period of being banished to Huangzhou was a peak of Su Shi's creation. By allowing students to expand and read the works of the same period, they could fully display Su Shi's life and feelings during that period in Huangzhou.
People are inseparable from the times, and the lectures should talk about the background of the times.
Only by understanding and comparing with the times can students grasp it more comprehensively.
In our language, this is called "big language concept", not limited to textbooks, not limited to classrooms, not limited to exams.
We have a saying that "the scope of life is as great as the scope of language".
I have always done this. Chinese classes should be "meaningful" and "interesting", combining aesthetic value with cognitive value and educational value.
In the normal education of Chinese, content such as flat and flat rhyme is not taught, because the exam is not taken.
But I occasionally expand in the classroom, such as Mao Zedong's "Qinyuan Spring Snow", in terms of rhythm and rhythm, which position is flat and which position is flat, students are sometimes quite interested.
Beijing News: Will extracurricular poetry training conflict with classroom teaching?
Min Fanjun: No conflict.
Because the training was done after school at 4:30 in the afternoon, I added an hour to work and ended at 5:50.
High school students are under great academic pressure and less involved, most of them are in the first and second year of high school.
I am not tired myself, because I do what I like to do and what is meaningful.
Beijing News: Is poetry education a common situation in Jiangsu?
Min Fanjun: I think Jiangsu has done better in this regard.
We in Jiangsu once proposed "six entrances": entering the campus, entering the institution, entering the enterprise, entering the community, entering the rural area, and entering the scenic spot.
This work has been persistent and has played a great role in promoting the popularization of poetry education and creation in the province.
Many schools responded to this call and invited the teachers of the poetry society to go to the school for tutoring and help the school to carry out poetry education.
Some elementary schools even compiled poems into the recess exercises, and after six years of persistence, they could recite nearly 300 poems.
Beijing News reporter Xu Yang and intern Qin Weifeng