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 first writing ceremony of spring 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 first writing ceremony of spring.

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 education and examinations. Currently, this traditional writing ceremony has changed in 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 ceremony to listen to the elders talk 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 in the whole commune participated. The year writing festival 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 changes in 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 studiousness 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 traditions of my homeland and the meaning of the spring writing ceremony will be 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 received high scores 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 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 ceremony was held at their homes and in the village education promotion associations.

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

Not only students but also members of the commune's education promotion association, elders and uncles in the village participate in this festival. This 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 it 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 Education Promotion Association has selected excellent entries to award prizes to continue to encourage and attract more and more participants.

This is the 8th year that 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