Recently, an education group in Yichang, Hubei Province assigned a winter vacation homework - everyone learns to "beat eggs" and designated this as a school-based course for the new semester. It is said that during the winter vacation, teachers and students learned egg-cracking on their own, and the relevant school-based courses were not compulsory. They were just interest courses and not compulsory. However, the news still attracted widespread attention. In the report, the school once emphasized that "there is no gambling and no lottery, but it is only promoted as an intellectual sport to create a special parent-child time." This move is also to "reduce the time that primary school students spend playing mobile phones and isolating themselves." The focus of netizens is whether egg-cracking is beneficial to children and whether it is necessary to make it a homework?
Dandan has become a popular competitive sport across the country from a folk chess and card game, and has been "officially recognized" to a large extent. In the 5th National Intellectual Games in 2023, card-cracking (egg-cracking) will be listed as a performance event, and will enter the finals of the National Chess and Cards Online Competition together with traditional projects such as chess, bridge, and backgammon. The endless egg-cracking competitions and egg-cracking associations are not new. Recently, topics related to the Shanghai Egg-cracking Sports Association have been on the hot searches. Chess and card sports that are popular all over the country naturally have their own unique charm. Egg-cracking is both fun and competitive, with an uncomplicated playing style, low threshold, and easy participation. Nowadays, it is not only a popular chess and card game, but has almost become a folk custom with a New Year flavor in some places. Beating eggs can exercise a certain degree of hand-brain coordination and observation, judgment and analysis skills. Of course, how much it can promote the intelligence of minors is a matter of opinion. However, sitting around and beating cards with the whole family during the winter vacation can actually enhance the family's internal and external relations during the game. The relationship between relatives and friends strengthens communication and appreciation of family and friendship through laughter and laughter.
As a school, the original intention of assigning students to "catch eggs" may be to explore ways to enhance practicality and reduce the burden of paper-and-pencil homework during the winter vacation. In this sense, during the holidays, "egg-cracking" as a hobby should play its positive value and role in health, safety, intelligence and happiness. For example, during the winter vacation, many people have seen this scene: children gather together, either each playing on their own mobile phone, or playing games and watching TV together, still staring at the big screen and the small screen. How can children have more face-to-face happy interactions, enhance close contact with family members, improve parent-child relationships, and find some interesting and convenient ways to interact? This is indeed a topic worth discussing.
But nothing is too much, and growth education especially requires a good grasp of the scale. For adults, in addition to hands-on brain training, egg-cracking can also have social functions. For underage children, how to get fun and entertainment from games while preventing addiction to them under the guidance of schools and parents is a key. You might as well remember: Learning to play is not the ultimate goal, but more importantly, it is to exercise your thinking and understand family emotions. Family activities during winter vacation and Chinese New Year should also pay attention to health and moderation, avoid the smell of smoke when playing cards, avoid children staying up late playing games, and stay away from uncivilized language at the card table and other behaviors that affect minors.
In fact, during this winter vacation, taking primary schools in Nanjing as an example, many schools have also launched various forms of "homework", weakening or even canceling the pen type, and replacing it with more practical and experiential content, such as creative research on the twelve zodiac signs, encouraging Children participate in family work, watch movies, visit exhibitions, visit cultural and museum venues with their parents, explore the folk customs of their hometown, and seek out excellent traditional culture. These innovations and explorations that allow children to enjoy the winter vacation and grow in practice deserve recognition. From this, we can see that there are many spaces and forms for practical "homework" during the winter vacation, and it is not single. From the school level, we can make winter vacation practice more scientific and reasonable on the premise of good research and planning. At the same time, we can coordinate with parents to encourage children to explore independently in many aspects and enrich their horizons, so that winter vacation "homework" truly becomes no longer single and simple. Not a burden, but colorful fun and gain.
Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News commentator Xue Bei