On January 3rd, 2019, the second Chinese Knowledge and Skills Contest co-hosted by Confucius Institute at Assumption University (hereafter CIAU) and Sripruetta School (hereafter SS) held at Sripruetta School. This contest attracted 63 students from 21 schools around Bangkok.
This contest included three parts: Chinese songs singing, Chinese stories telling and Chinese knowledge contest. Dr. Veera Janchai, the principal of SS encouraged participants to perform actively and show their talent.
During the singing contest, the participants showed their love for the Chinese language. The atmosphere of Chinese songs competition was extremely warm. The popular songs such as “You Exist in My Aong” and “Time Boils the Rain” were unanimously loved by the audience. Many audience hummed songs with participants. In Chinese story telling competition, the topics of stories not only included classic stories with rich Chinese traditional cultural connotations such as “Jingwei Trying to Fill Up the Sea” and “Bearing the Rod and Willingly Taking the Punishment”, but also humorous and allegorical stories such as “Blind Men Guessing an Elephant” and “the Race Between Hare and Tortoise”. From the immature voices and rich interpretation of the participants, the audience could deeply feel their love for Chinese culture.
CIAU will continue to deepen its cooperation with its teaching sites and spare no effort to support teaching sites to carry out various forms of Chinese cultural activities to promote Thai students’ understanding of Chinese culture and Chinese stories.
Edited by Ms. Li Wei
Photographed by Mr. Yuan Zheng
Revised by Ms. Yang Hairong
Translated by Ms. Jiang Mengyin