China News Service, Shanghai, March 8 (Reporter Wang Ji) The Shanghai Citizen Art Night School, which was a hot topic on the Internet last fall, opened online registration for the 2024 spring class on the 8th.

At the peak of registration, 730,000 people were "rushing for courses" online at the same time, and 112 courses were filled within 10 seconds.

　　Among them, the student quotas for eight courses, including the most popular Expo baking class and zero-based handmade leather goods experience class, were "snapped" within 4 seconds.

　　This year, the Shanghai Citizen Art Night School’s spring class has further expanded its capacity, with plans to offer 251 teaching spots and 680 courses, enrolling a total of 15,000 students.

Compared with last year, many "Internet celebrity" cultural spaces and attractions such as Xujiahui Academy, Jiaoji Vinyl Culture and Art Sharing Space, Shanghai Bookstore Fuzhou Road Store, and Shanghai Soong Ching Ling's Former Residence Memorial Hall have appeared in the newly added teaching sites; A number of lifestyle courses that are popular among young and middle-aged people, such as trendy card battles, "God's Eye Drone", and mindfulness meditation, are also quietly emerging in spring classes.

　　What has attracted much attention is that the Shanghai Mass Art Museum and Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine have jointly launched three traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage health and wellness courses to "test the water", allowing students to use traditional Chinese medicine knowledge to "treat diseases before they become ill." hour".

Cao Kang, director of the Social Work Department of Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in the current fast-paced living environment, white-collar young people are facing tremendous work pressure and life challenges. Issues such as occupational exposure, parenting problems, and women's health have become citizens' concerns. Focus, "I hope that through these courses, we can not only keep the traditional Chinese medicine culture upright and innovative, but also attract and attract fans of the post-80s and post-90s generations, so that they can become disseminators and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine culture."

　　Despite multiple expansions in teaching locations and course schedules, Shanghai Citizen Art Night School is still hard to find.

The "night school trend" it set off spread to cities such as Beijing, Shenzhen, and Xi'an.

Some art institutions set up their own evening classes to attract participants to sign up for advanced classes through experiential classes and then advanced classes; there are also directors who take the lead in convening students and invite teachers or institutions to teach.

　　Wu Penghong, director of Shanghai Mass Art Museum, recently received many groups of representatives from various places who came to learn the night school model.

In his view, the prosperity of art night schools is a good phenomenon. No matter which model is adopted, the original intention is to allow young and middle-aged people to use their evening time to improve their aesthetic literacy and expand their social circle.

"It is a good thing to mobilize the enthusiasm of social institutions and participate together. After all, the public welfare projects provided by the government cannot meet the needs of so many people at once, but teacher standards and teaching management standards must be rigid indicators for all art night schools." (End)