Date: June 2, 2022

Source: News Center

JNU hosted the final evaluation and awards ceremony of the first Perfect Ambassador of Chinese Culture competition on May 28. Contestants from JNU, Chongqing University and the International China-Germany Cultural Exchange Association shared their “perfect solutions” for spreading Chinese culture. The event was undertaken by JNU’s Education Development Foundation and the Collaborative Innovation Centre for the Transmission of Chinese Culture in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas. It was carried out by the JNU Perfect Chinese Culture Transmission Fund, sponsored by Perfect (China) Co., Ltd.

(The event site)

(Teams presenting their projects)

(JNU Party Secretary Lin Rupeng speaking)

Fourteen outstanding projects from 10 countries and regions -- Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Russia, Ecuador, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Australia -- entered the final review conference. The conference awarded five silver prizes, nine bronze, six Culturing awards, five Organization awards and three Most Popular Project awards.

These projects won silver:

1.“TCM Flourishes at JNU” 

Chen Hongling, a student of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) from Hong Kong, said her project carried out overseas dissemination activities about TCM culture by gathering the strength of JNU’s alumni and students. 

(Deputy Party Secretary Xia Quan presenting a silver award to Chen Hongling)

2.“One World, Five Transnational Families”

Xiao Zhen, a JNU doctoral student in Chinese history, comes from a multicultural, transnational family with members from China, Australia and South Korea. With her team, she shot videos of interviews about the global village and global vision. From the perspective of cross-cultural marriage and family in China and abroad, she showed the current situation of the inheritance and transmission of Chinese culture by telling real-life stories, focusing on diet, traditional festivals, children's education, artworks and the image of China and its people in cross-cultural families.

3.“Learning Chinese by Reciting the Poem” 

Wang Ying, a JNU doctoral student in teaching overseas Chinese language and culture, presented novel sound resources and calligraphy of the Thousand-Character Poem created by Prof. Wang Hanwei of JNU’s College of Chinese Language and Culture. She did teaching in Japan, providing an interesting and efficient way for children to learn Chinese. She also provided online public welfare counseling to descendants of overseas Chinese from 13 countries around the world and helped the Examination Institute of Chinese Language and Culture hold the recitation and singing competitions of the Poem.

4. “Spreading Chinese Poems to Other Continents”

Pang Peiying from Hong Kong, together with team members from the mainland, spread Chinese poetic tunes to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas through reading, song adaptation, singing and other forms in English, French, Japanese and other languages. In this way, they combined their professional skills with personal strengths to spread Chinese culture.

5. “Legend of Butterfly Lovers in 3D Animation”

Sun Jiaying from Malaysia presented the Chinese folk tale with 3D animation, contributing in her own way to the spread of Chinese culture.