Spring writing – traditional beauty of Quynh village

(Baonghean.vn) - It has become a tradition that every year on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Quynh Doi Commune Association for the Promotion of Education organizes the spring writing ceremony to promote learning and educate the homeland's traditions for future generations to continue. Spring Dinh Dau 2017 is the 8th year Quynh Doi has organized the spring writing activity.

The custom of writing the first letter of the year used to be performed by teachers, Confucian students, scholars, and Confucian scholars in Quynh Doi village at the moment after New Year's Eve in front of the family altar to pray for a prosperous year in terms of studies and exams. Currently, this traditional writing ceremony has changed its form and the second day of the first lunar month is chosen to open the festival every year.

Every time Tet comes, the children in the commune eagerly wait for the opening writing ceremony to listen to the elders tell stories about the tradition of the imperial examinations, and together write down their feelings praising the innovation of their homeland. This is the traditional beauty that many generations of Quynh village children still preserve and promote.

Scene of the spring opening ceremony.

Ho Thi Dieu Linh, a 9th grade student at Ho Tung Mau Secondary School, Quynh Doi, shared: "As a student, I feel very proud to participate in the opening ceremony of my hometown and find it very meaningful. Through that, we learn more about the traditional beauty of our hometown. I write about the innovation of my hometown."

This is the 8th year Quynh Doi commune has organized the spring writing festival. This year, Dinh Dau Spring 2017, 80 outstanding students representing nearly 600 students of the whole commune participated. The year writing ceremony has become an annual festival and received positive response from all classes of people.

Besides the activities of giving gifts to encourage learning on New Year's Eve and the first morning of the Lunar New Year of families and clans, the spring writing ceremony is a typical beauty of Quynh village. Thereby, it contributes to educating traditions, arousing the spirit of learning competition and expressing profound humanistic meaning, in line with the movement of building a learning society.

Students showed their talent in writing poetry and essays describing their homeland and the innovation of Quynh village.

As a son far from home, Mr. Nguyen Kim Dinh is very proud and excited about the achievements that his homeland has achieved today, especially the promotion of the tradition of learning through the spring writing ceremony. "I am a son far from home who only visits occasionally and feels that my homeland is changing more and more, I also hope that the tradition of my homeland and the meaning of the spring writing ceremony are preserved and promoted so that people can be proud of their homeland", said Mr. Nguyen Kim Dinh.

In the opening ceremony, there were many works that got high marks thanks to beautiful handwriting and good poetry.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Quy - Chairman of the Quynh Doi Commune Education Promotion Association, Quynh Luu District said that after New Year's Eve, the opening ceremony was held with the first writing ceremony to bring luck to the children in their studies and passing exams in the new school year. On the 2nd day, the ceremony was held for the children at the village communal house, and on the 30th night, the first writing ceremony was held at the families and village education promotion associations.

Students showed their talent in writing poetry and essays describing their homeland and the innovation of Quynh village.

Not only students but this festival also has the participation of members of the commune's education promotion association, elders, and uncles in the village. From there, it creates a continuation of the tradition of the cultural homeland. This is also an opportunity for students to look back on their achievements in the past year, using that as motivation to push themselves to try harder and practice in the new years.

To make this cultural activity more meaningful, the Quynh Doi Commune Learning Promotion Association has selected excellent entries to award prizes to continue to encourage and attract more and more participants.

This is the 8th year Quynh Doi commune has organized the spring writing ceremony. Through this, it promotes learning and educating the homeland's traditions for future generations.

These articles will be kept in the traditional library of the school and commune and read on local loudspeakers so that the children of Quynh village will always be proud of a heroic, scholarly homeland that few other homelands have.

Le Nhung - Viet Hung