On August 31, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City held the opening ceremony of the 2022 first-year primary school freshmen at the Panyu Academy with a history of more than 600 years.

　　The ceremony of opening a pen, commonly known as "Breaking the Meng", is a form of enlightenment education for middle school children in traditional Chinese culture to begin literacy and rites, and is known as one of the four great rites of life.

The opening ceremony has far-reaching significance for every reader.

　　The opening ceremony is divided into several parts, including "You Pan's Enrollment", "Preparation for Dressing Up", "Honoring Parents and Respecting Teachers", "Breaking Your Wisdom", "Swearing Ambition", "Drumming Progress", "Students' First Class", and "Famous Teachers Begin Writing" "Certificate of Licheng", "Flying Dreams" and so on.

　　The first link is "You Pan Enrollment". The teacher leads the students to visit Pan Chi and swim to the front of the arch bridge. I wish the students to study hard and make progress in their studies, which means that they will start school today.

　　"Getting dressed and practicing rituals" means that in Minglun Hall, students first arrange their clothes in front of the statue of Confucius, including self-correcting clothes, mutual-correcting clothes and teacher-correcting clothes.

Chinese people have always paid attention to clothing, and dress must be neat, in order to show a person's good mental outlook and self-cultivation.

　　"filial piety and respect for teachers" means that students first salute the statue of Confucius, and then salute the teacher to thank the teacher for his enlightenment.

　　"Dianzhi breaks Mongolia" refers to Dianzhi, "mole" and "wisdom" are the same pronunciation, borrowing the meaning of wisdom.

The teacher points the cinnabar mole on the forehead of the students, which means to open up wisdom, read well, open the door of knowledge, correct conduct, have a bright mind, and grow up healthily.

　　"Swearing to make one's aspirations clear" means to make a vow, to respect teachers and parents, to love the motherland, to make clear aspirations, to study diligently, to be civilized, to follow traditions, and to keep the original intention.

　　"I want to be a scientist", "I want to be a doctor", "I want to be a paleontologist"... On that day, the students beat the drum after expressing their aspirations, which means "drumming and forging ahead".

　　Literacy and writing is the first step in learning a culture in life.

"Famous Teacher's Writing" is a teacher who writes for the students and teaches them to write a word for "person". It only takes two strokes. To be a good person requires a lifetime of hard work.

I hope that the students will learn to be human, to be a decent person, to be a person of noble morality.

　　According to reports, Guangzhou Panyu Academy, also known as the Confucian Temple and the Confucian Temple, was built in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty.

The Panyu Academy is the only well-preserved school in Guangzhou.

(Reporter Cai Minjie produced Liu Peng)

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]