Youthful Hearts to the Party, Aesthetic Education to the Future
The Third Guizi Mountain Aesthetic Festival and the Exhibition of the 2022 Graduates of the School of Fine Arts were grandly opened in the Youming Gymnasium!
Opening ceremony
The flower stamen of hope blooms fragrantly, and the spark of innovation is brilliant and gorgeous. In May, which is full of youthfulness, our school welcomed the Third Guizi Mountain Aesthetic Festival. On the afternoon of May 21, the Third Guizi Mountain Aesthetic Festival was grandly opened in Youming Gymnasium. Yu Shan, Chief Editor of Hubei Arts Publishing House and General Manager of Hubei Jiabao Art Co., Ltd, Xing Yuanyuan, Operation Director of Art Literature Magazine, He Sinuo, Founder of Happy Arting Brand, Chen Diming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Central China Normal University, Shi Wei, General Manager of Central China Normal University Science and Technology Park, Li Xianling, Deputy Director of the Student Work Department of the Party Committee of Central China Normal University, attended the meeting, and members of the Party and Government class, full-time teachers, all counselors and student representatives of the College attended.
Opening ceremony
In Chen Diming’s opening speech, he first gave full recognition to the work of aesthetic education in the past year. He pointed out: "This year's Guizi Mountain Aesthetic Festival has further enhanced the participation, synergy, and service of aesthetic education activities based on retaining the rich contents of the previous two editions, which will strongly promote the deep integration of school aesthetic education with campus culture construction and social aesthetic education, and consolidate the new pattern of aesthetic education work of beauty and co-education. The whole school should take this Guizi Mountain Aesthetic Festival as an opportunity to further strengthen collaboration and take advantage of the situation to make new contributions to strengthening school aesthetic education to cultivate people, create beauty and spread beauty, and make the voice of Central China Normal University and contribute to the strength of Central China Normal University in the work of social aesthetic education."
Chen Diming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Central China Normal University, delivered the opening speech
Liu Qian, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Fine Arts, gave a detailed introduction to the activities of the festival. She said that the theme of this year's festival is "Youthful Hearts to the Party, Aesthetic Education to the Future", with ideological leadership, professional seminars, art exhibitions, art experience, and social services as the main contents, more than 30 colorful cultural and artistic experience activities are carried out, reflecting the three main characteristics of cultivating elements with beauty, advancing together with beauty and reaching far with beauty.
Liu Qian, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Fine Arts, introduced the arrangement of the event
Zheng Da, vice dean of the School of Fine Arts, read out the document of recognition of outstanding works of the 2022 graduates. The opening ceremony honored 34 students of the 2022 Good Work Award and 9 students of the Masterpiece Award and presented the awards on-site.
Zheng Da, Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts, read out the commendation document for this year's excellent works
Award ceremony
Award ceremony
Huang Yuting, the representative of the 2022 graduates of the School of Fine Arts, expressed his gratitude to his teachers, said goodbye to his youth, reviewed the four years from youth to growth, from busy to farewell, expressed his love for his alma mater and his vision for the future, and said on behalf of all graduates that he would remember his alma mater's motto of "loyalty, elegance, simplicity, and perseverance", carry forward the spirit of Huashi people, and be a new youth of the times with both virtue and talent, courageous in innovation and bold in taking responsibility in her speech.
Speech by Student representative Huang Yuting
On behalf of all the parents, the father of 2022 graduate Wang Ziyu expressed his highest respect and heartfelt gratitude to all the school leaders and teachers for their hard work. In addition, he also took "gratitude" and "responsibility" as the starting point and encouraged the students to carry forward the spirit of "mountain workers" and in the "relay race" to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, they should run well and write a new chapter in their lives.
Speech by Wang Hongnian, parent of Wang Ziyu, a 2022 undergraduate student
Mr. Shu Cong, director of the oil painting department, spoke as a representative of teachers. He talked about how after the refinement of fighting against the epidemic, the students of the School of Fine Arts have become stronger in their ideals, stronger in their will, and more powerful in their brushes. He hoped that the students would be good masters of the new era, create more artworks that reflect the voice of the times and uplift the spirit of the Chinese nation, and contribute their youthful power to carry forward the spirit of Chinese aesthetic education and promote the development of aesthetic education.
Speech by teacher representative Mr. Shu Cong
The opening ceremony had a lively atmosphere, and the Sky Choir was invited to perform the opening chorus, along with the Chinese Zither performance "the Orchid Pavilion" and the poetry recitation "Youth", giving the audience a sense of beauty.
Sky Choir performance
Chinese Zither performance of "the Orchid Pavilion”
Poetry recitation "Youth”
It is reported that this is the third time that our university has held the Guizi Mountain Aesthetic Festival since it was first held in 2019, and it has become a campus cultural brand activity and a beautiful card for our university to spread the concept of aesthetic education, display the results of aesthetic education and strengthen the services of aesthetic education to the society. We hope that teachers, students, and people from all walks of life will actively participate in the festival to discover the beauty of art and feel the beauty of life.
Source: The Voice of CCNU
Translator: Liu Yaqi
Date: June 5, 2022
