CCHC Visited Escola Secundária Técnico-Profissional da Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau

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On the morning of April 21, 2022 (Thursday), Dr. CHEANG Neng Ian, Deputy Director of the Centre for Chinese History and Culture of the University of Macau, Ms. KUAN Sio In, Principal Admin Officer, and Ms. HO Sok Fong, Admin Staff, and other centre members visited the Escola Secundária Técnico-Profissional da Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau.

Under the warm reception of Principal LOI Kat Sat and Director WONG Kuong Lun of the Escola Secundária Técnico-Profissional da Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau, Dr. CHEANG Neng Ian, Deputy Director of CCHC, first briefly introduced the concepts, resources, facilities and previous activities of Macao Base for Primary & Secondary Education in Humanities & Social Science and CCHC. Afterwards, Principal Loi elaborated on the school running and educational purpose of the school. He also pointed out that since the education of the senior high school focuses on science and technology, he hopes that through the cooperation with the base, the students of the school will have a deeper understanding and identification of Chinese traditional culture.

The two sides had a pleasant conversation and discussed the future direction of cooperation. Finally, CCHC presented a silk banner to Escola Secundária Técnico-Profissional da Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau and other centre’s publications such as the “Macao Teenager’s Newspaper”.

The entrance of Escola Secundária Técnico-Profissional da Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau

CCHC presented a pennant to Escola Secundária Técnico-Profissional da Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau

Principal Admin Officer of CCHC KUAN Sio In (first from left), Deputy Director CHEANG Neng Ian of CCHC (second from left), Principal LOI Kat Sat (second from right) and Director WONG Kuong Lun (first from right) exchanged views on future cooperation.

Principal LOI Kat Sat (first from left) and Director WONG Kuong Lun (first from right)

CCHC staff visited the Escola

A Complete Success of “Literary, History and Geography Quiz Competition”

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On April 30, 2022, the “Literary, History and Geography Quiz Competition” co-organized by the Macao Base for Primary & Secondary Education in Humanities & Social Science, Colégio Diocesano de São José, Cinta Escola and the Centre for Chinese History and Culture of the University of Macau was successfully held at CDSJ5 school hall. Prof. ZHU Shoutong, Director of CCHC, and Dr. CHEANG Neng Ian, deputy director, came to watch the competition and served as judges.

Before the start of the competition, Principal WONG Kin Man of CDSJ5 had a cordial conversation with Prof. Zhu and Dr. Cheang. Prof. Zhu presented Principal WONG with souvenirs from CCHC, including the bound edition of the “Macao Teenager’s Newspaper” edited by centre and the centre’s flag, and took a group photo. Afterwards, Principal WONG also introduced the situation of CDSJ5 to the teachers of CCHC. CDSJ5 is a traditional Catholic school with a history of nearly 90 years. The school facilities are complete, the school spirit is rigorous, and the school discipline is strict. At the same time, it has the educational concept of balanced development in education based on the spirit of the Catholic doctrine of “faith, hope, and love”, and combined with the essence of traditional Chinese culture to help students in spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, social, and aesthetics.

First, the participating students prayed with the teachers and students who watched the competition, and then Professor Zhu delivered a guest speech. Professor Zhu introduced the work of CCHC and expressed the hope to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with CDSJ5 to jointly build the Macao’s characteristic culture that “the Central Plains Culture is the mainstream, and the multiculturalism coexists”. At nine o’clock, the contest officially started. Six teams composed of high school freshmen and sophomore students entered the finals and started the final peak showdown. The competition is novel and diverse, divided into compulsory questions, situational questions and quick response questions. The topics of the competition across time and boundaries, which are rich and colorful, involving astronomy, geography, history, literature and other aspects. At the scene of the competition, each participating team showed strong on-the-spot reaction ability and rich knowledge reserve. The accuracy of the answers was extremely high, and it was hard to decide on the winner. In the end, the championship, runner-up and third runner-up were determined through extra play. President WONG, Professor Zhu and other guests presented awards to the winning teams.

In his speech, Principal WONG thanked CCHC for its strong support for this event, and affirmed the significance of this event in promoting Chinese history and culture. The event achieved results that exceeded expectations and was a complete success.

Through this activity, the teachers and students of CDSJ5 have gained a lot. This competition not only aroused the students’ enthusiasm for learning and stimulated their interest in knowledge of literature, history and geography, but also allowed them to better understand their hometown, motherland and the whole world in a subtle way, so as to laid a solid foundation to truly become high-quality talents that loves Macao and the country in an all-round way.

  Prof. ZHU presented souvenirs to Principal WONG

Teachers and students prayed before the competition

Prof. ZHU Shoutong gave a speech

Principal WONG gave a speech

Group photo of Prof. ZHU, Principal WONG, other judges and award-winning students

Teachers and students of CCHC visited the National Security Education Exhibition

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Teachers and students of CCHC visited the National Security Education Exhibition

In order to carry forward the theme of “strengthening the overall national security concept and realizing the national security achievements in the new era”, the Macao SAR Government and the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region jointly held the 5th National Security Education Exhibition for All Citizens.

 

The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) of University of Macau has been committed to cultivating the patriotic feelings of Macao’s younger generation and enhancing their legal awareness of safeguarding national security. In order to further strengthen the national sovereignty and national security awareness of Macao youth, and actively cooperate with the central government in carrying out national security publicity and education activities, CCHC sent a group to the exhibition led by Professor Zhu Shoutong, director of CCHC, Dr. CHEANG Neng Ian, deputy director, and Miss KUAN Sio In, Principal Admin Officer, on the afternoon of April 18th, and organized students to visit and study.

 

This “National Security Education Exhibition for All Citizens” is divided into six parts. It focuses on showing that under the guidance of the “overall national security concept” put forward by Xi Jinping, the General Secretary, China has made overall plans for development and security, calmly responded to the great changes and the Covid-19 epidemic, promoted national security in the new era and made a series of great achievements, as well as various measures and achievements of the Macao SAR government to safeguard national security and promote the principle of “one country, two systems” steadily. It enables the broad masses of citizens to look back on the development of the country and Macao SAR in the past year, feel the achievements of national security in the new era, consciously fulfill the responsibility of safeguarding national security, make concerted efforts to consolidate the good situation of “patriots governing Macao”, and jointly safeguard national security and the prosperity and stability of Macao society.

 

Through this exhibition, the teachers and students of CCHC have a deeper understanding of “national security”. In future, CCHC will continue to implement the “overall national security concept”, actively participate in various work to safeguard national security, and ensure that the practice of “one country, two systems” in Macao is stable and far-reaching.

“The Experience of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in the University of Macau” Completed Successfully

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“The Experience of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in the University of Macau”, jointly organized by the Centre for Chinese History and Culture (FAH-CCHC) of UM and Global Chinese Ancestral Association, was held in E34 (Cultural Building) on the afternoon of March 28, 2022. Many scholars and experts on intangible cultural heritage from Henan and Macao attended the activity, along with local media representatives and nearly 100 UM students.

The activity began with a speech by Professor Xu Jie, dean of FAH. Xu Jie spoke highly of Henan’s great contributions to the development of Chinese culture in his speech. Wang Youyi, a writer and executive president of the Global Chinese Ancestral Association, gave an introduction of China’s intangible cultural heritage project and pointed out that this activity could offer UM teachers and students an opportunity to have a deeper understanding of the significance of excellent traditional Chinese culture and intangible cultural heritage. In this activity, five scholars on Chinese intangible cultural heritage presented souvenirs to University of Macau, including: Wang Fawan, the 25th generation inheritor of Dongyuan movable-type printing, Zhang Jizhong, an inheritor of Zhuxian New Year’s xylograph, Wang Ke, an inheritor of stone rubbings, Li Li, an inheritor of Shangqiu paper cuttings and Song Changhong, the 6th generation inheritor of Bianjing kite. Professor Zhu Shoutong, on behalf of UM-CCHC, also returned souvenirs to those scholars and inheritors on intangible heritage.

Afterwards, there was an exhibition session in E34 (Cultural Building), where teachers and students can closely participate in the making process of Chinese intangible cultural heritage art and have face-to-face conversations with those inheritors. Wang Yihan, the Chinese cultural promotion ambassador and a student of FAH, said that this activity brought intangible cultural heritages in various forms to Macao, which could broaden UM students’ vision and increased their knowledge about traditional culture.

This activity is one of the series of activities in honor of Xuanyuan Huangdi in Macao this year, and marked a successful start.

The Successful Holding of Lecture on Cross-border Data and Culture

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On 24 March 2022, the Center for Chinese History and Culture of the University of Macau held a lecture on Cross-border Data and Culture in the Lecture Hall G011 of Cultural Building. The distinguished speaker of the lecture is Professor Zhiming Cai, the Head of Academic Affairs Office and Professor of the Faculty of Data Science of the City University of Macau.

 

This lecture talks about a series of problems, such as the differences in regulations, politics, economy, trade and mutual trust between different places, resulting in the inability of cross-border data, the inability of cross-border systems to interconnect, and the sovereign conflict between systems and data. Professor Cai pointed out that different political and cultural backgrounds affect the cross-border authorized use of personal data. In addition, cultural differences are an important problem for Chinese big systems and Chinese enterprises to go overseas. At the same time, Professor Cai mentioned that the advantages of “one country, two systems”, multiculturalism and China-Portugal platform have brought important opportunities to Macao.

 

This lecture attracted UM students’ active participation, who enthusiastically exchanged ideas about data and cultural topics with Professor Cai during the lecture.

The “Chinese New Year Lantern Carnival 2022”

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The “Chinese New Year Lantern Carnival 2022”, jointly organized by The UM Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC), the Calligraphy Club, the Literature Club and the Culinary Art Society, took place at E31 Student Activity Centre Plaza, on the evening of 16th February, 2022. Nearly 200 students, teachers and visitors came to participate in […]

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UM holds opening ceremony for selection of winners of Luxun Teenagers Literature Award

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The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Chinese History and Culture held an opening ceremony and a press conference for the selection of winners of the Luxun Teenagers Literature Award. The event collects outstanding entries from college and secondary students from Macao, and a panel of judges comprised of leading literary scholars from Macao and mainland China will select the winning entries for the national competition. This event has been held for 12 consecutive years, attracting a total of 10 million students from 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and 11 overseas regions.

UM holds opening ceremony for selection of winners of Luxun Teenagers Literature Award

Zhu　Shoutong　receives the certificate of appointment 

 

A group photo

“The Second Macau Forum on Education in Humanities and Social Sciences – Construction of Campus Culture in extraordinary times” Completed Successfully

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On 15 Dec, 2021, “The Second Macau Forum on Education in Humanities and Social Sciences – Construction of Campus Culture in extraordinary times” (organized by FAH-CCHC) was held successfully in E34-G019.

Ho Yu, principal of Escola Xin Hua, said at the forum that Escola Xin Hua takes “one centre, one platform and one base” as the main criterion to construct the campus culture of school and encourage the teachers and students therein to learn more about Chinese history and culture. At the forum, the principal of Kwong Tai Middle School, Chan Kin Pong, mentioned the campus construction of Kwong Tai Middle School, hoping that teachers and students can have “vigour, health and determination” in their work and study, so that campus staff and students of Kwong Tai Middle School can expose their competence, talents and qualities to the society.

Professor Zhang Jiuling showed the techniques for chanting poetry in the forum. Prof. Zhang told the attending guests that The Book of Songs is in nature more musical than literal. Hence teaching students chanting techniques can also help them deepen their understanding of Chinese history and culture. Professor Sun Jianrong wished that primary and secondary schools in Macao could introduce the Western ideas and principles as the teaching method, as the international schools are doing, but still should keep the characteristics of Chinese culture into the construction of campus culture. He also wished that the campus culture of schools in Macao could be eclectic, helpful and unique for students in their 12-year compulsory education.

The forum on “Construction of Campus Culture in Extraordinary times” completed successfully in an engaging discussion among principals and professors.

The guests attending this forum include: Ho Yu, principal of Escola Xin Hua, Chan Kin Pong, principal of Kwong Tai Middle School, Prof. Zhang Jiuling from Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM), Fan Yimin, director of Journal Foco Macau, Prof. Yang Bin from Department of History of FAH of UM, Sun Jianrong, Dean of University International College (UIC) of Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Prof. Tam Mei Leng, Prof. Wang Mingyu and Prof. Ma Wan Cham from Department of Chinese Language and Literature of UM-FAH, Prof. Yeung Siu Kwai from Faculty of Education (FED) of UM, Prof. Chen Zhong from Confucius Institute of UM, Ms. Xu Huifang and Mr. Calvin from Faculty of Business and Administration (FBA) of UM, Dr. Cheang Neng Ian, Deputy Director of  CCHC and more than 30 Chinese cultural promotion ambassadors of FAH-CCHC.

“China Cultural Promotion Ambassador 2022 promotion work prospect Symposium” Completed Successfully

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“China Cultural Promotion Ambassador 2022 promotion prospect Symposium” was successfully held at the CCHC on December 17, 2021. At the symposium, Dr. Zheng Ningren, deputy director of the CCHC, first introduced the general situation of the CCHC to the promotion ambassadors, focusing on the construction of “five centers”, namely promotion activity center, education and training center, academic exchange center, academic research center and publicity and promotion center. And then Dr. Zheng explained the regulations on the work of Chinese culture promotion to the ambassadors, so that the promotion ambassadors can be familiar with the work direction and content of the center. He wished that the promotion ambassadors could carry out promotion activities quickly and better. Professor Zhu Shoutong, director of CCHC, put forward three goals for the future work of the promotion ambassador: first, to become a welcoming group on the university campus; second, to become an influential force in the center activities, and third, to become colleagues of the center. Professor Zhu Shoutong hoped that the ambassadors could do their best to promote Chinese culture, and that the ambassadors could put forward positive opinions on the promotion of the center. During the exchange session, the ambassadors actively offered their opinions and suggestions for the promotion of Chinese culture. At the end of the symposium, the participating ambassadors took a group photo with the center staffs.

The Plan to Cultivate the Masters of Humanities & Social Science Education in December 2021 Completed Successfully

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To enrich the knowledge of art and humanities of Macao’s primary and secondary teachers, the Education and Youth Development Bureau of Macao, in December 2021, cooperating with the Centre for Chinese History and Culture and Macao Base for Primary & Secondary Education in Humanities & Social Science, co-organized “the Plan to Cultivate the Masters of Humanities & Social Science Education”. The associate professor Yeung Siu Kwai from Faculty of Education, Emeritus professor Tang Keng Pan, associate professor Wang Sihao, assistant professor Lo In-Fat from FAH were invited as tutors in this training plan.

The training program took place in 4 and 11 December, with selected courses including professor Yeung’s “Zhu Xi’s and Qian Mu’s Explanations of Courtesy in The Analects of Confucius” and “the View of Under-Heaven in ‘The Analects’ and its Explanations in Later Generations”, professor Tang’s “Demystifying the Chinese Characters in Macao’s World Cultural Heritage Sites” and “Reading Liu Yuxi’s ‘An Epigraph in Praise of My Humble Home’ as an Example of Showing How to Understand the Cultural Symbols in Literary Texts”, professor Wang’s “A Sketch of Chinese Classics from the Ancient Travel Notes” and professor Lo’s “How to Use Our Mother Tongue to Differentiate the Rhyme Schemes in Poetry and Understand the Pronunciations in Dictionary”. The 5 courses lasted for 15 hours in total, and around 150 people attended them.

Many trainees after class showed great interest in the stories behind the Chinese characters in Macao’s world cultural heritages, and continued to discuss with professor Tang. Additionally, professor Tang suggested the trainees to retell and disseminate Macao’s history and culture to their own students in class, so that the new generation could also learn more about the native culture.