Anhui University Students Recitation Art Festival at AXHU

Sep 26, 2024, International Office，5-minute read  

On Sep 18-19, 2024, “Youth To Embrace Tomorrow, Together!” 4^th Anhui University Students Recitation Art Festival—live recitation of classical Chinese literary works—co-hosted by the CPC Publicity Department of Anhui Province, the work committee of Anhui Provincial Education Department, and Anhui University of Arts.

Team AXHU participated into the event, which was instructed by the AXHU School of Culture and Communication assistant dean ZHAI Chunxiang and the Broadcasting & Anchoring faculty ZHENG Shuai.

The event received 222 works from Anhui-wide 91 higher education institutions. And after the experts’ review and judgement, the Top 28 works will compete in the finals.

And the poetic prose “Snowflakes Fall on the Ground” as a duet performed by the Broadcasting & Anchoring undergraduate students ZHANG Huanhuan (class of 2025) and YANG Jie (class of 2028) were given the first prize, while the Team AXHU was presented with the “Excellence Organizing Award”.

The poem was originally written in 1937 by AI Qing (1910-1996), a representative personage of the Chinese modern arts in literature, poetry, and paintings, which vividly depicted the historical traumas and disastrous threats on the people’s livelihood  changing with times in the Republic of China (1912-1949)—a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, with which the two students expressed their deep patriotism to our nation.

Moreover, this artistic event has brought together a prized community of scholars and specialists serving as the judge panelists, including LU Deng, a national first-class actor, reputed dubber and elocutionist, and chair of the Shanghai Elocutionists Association; director of Anhui Elocutionists Academy XU Beixiong; director, also general secretary, of Zhejiang Elocutionists Association SHI Kun, who demonstrated their own representative works on stage. 

Based on the theme event to translate the China’s new look and the outlook in new era, the higher education leaders and practitioners will continue to navigate the current university students to have a deep understanding of the dedicated CPC members in exploring the past, present and future on the road to the national rejuvenation, and to become the best successors throughout any tough times and the younger builders responsible for the socialism with Chinese characteristics.