“蜀中何物灵，有竹慈为名。一丛阔数步，森森数十茎。长茎复短茎，枝叶不峥嵘。去年笱已长，今年笱又生。”说的就是此次汉文化之旅的主角“竹”，古往今来，文人骚客多爱借竹咏志、抒情。既然“竹”在中国文化的灿烂星河中扮演了重要的角色，那么探索“竹”这一中国文物标志变得十分有意义。我们一起来看看，在此次竹文化学习周里，各学科各年级老师们是如何各显神通地带孩子们走入竹林深处。
“What’s the spirit in Zhu? It’s called Zhuzi. A clump of several broad steps, dozens of dense stems. Long stem or short stem, its ranches and leaves are unremarkable. Last year, it has grown, and this year, it has grown again.” This is the protagonist “bamboo” in our trip to Han culture. From ancient times to the present, scholars and poets use bamboo as their inspiration to personify their aspirations and express their feelings. Since “bamboo” has played an important role in the many-starred galaxy of Chinese culture, it is of great significance to explore “bamboo” as a symbol of Chinese cultural relics. Let’s take a look at how the teachers of various disciplines and grades show their creative powers to lead the children into the depths of a bamboo forest, in this delightful week of bamboo culture.
画竹 Painting Bamboo
“四十年来画竹枝，日间挥写夜间思。冗繁削尽留清瘦，画到生时是熟时。”一首《题画竹》道尽了中国历代文人雅士对于画竹的执着追求。美术组的老师们带领孩子欣赏竹子的名画，探索学习不同时期的竹子形态，最终让竹子的一生跃然纸上。五年级的学生们在老师的带领下一边学习感悟竹的坚韧、不怕挫折的精神，一边动手探索竹的一生，小组合作式学习用思维导图报来呈现学习的成果。有的学生喜爱竹的挺拔，做思维导图时画上了亭亭玉立的竹做导图的主干，有的学生喜爱竹的美食，将应用美食版块竹筒饭做得惟妙惟肖，有的学生喜爱竹的清雅脱俗，在思维导图上画上了竹林的配图…… 真正体会到何为“诗中有画，画中有诗”！学生们还将这个奇妙的竹之旅用英语娓娓道来，真有一种身临其境之感！
“For 40 years, I have been painting bamboo branches, drawing in the daytime and thinking at night. It’s a time to shave all the redundancy and thinness when painting comes to life. ” A poem “Inscribed Bamboo” tells us of Chinese literati’s persistent pursuit of painting bamboo. The teachers of our art group led the children to appreciate famous paintings of bamboo, exploring and learning the forms of bamboo in different periods, showing the grace of bamboo. Under the guidance of teachers, Grade 5 students learned to understand bamboo’s tenacity and fear of setbacks, and explored the life of bamboo at the same time. In group cooperative learning, they used mind maps to present their understanding of what they had learned. Some students like bamboo’s straightness, and drew graceful bamboo as the main part of their mind map. Some students like bamboo’s delicacy, and made bamboo tube rice with vividly delicate sections. Some students liked bamboo’s elegance and refinement, and drew the structure of a bamboo forest… They enjoyed “painting in poetry, poetry in painting”! The students also talked about this wonderful bamboo journey in English. It was a truly immersive experience!
诵竹 Chanting Bamboo
“咬定青山不放松，立根原在破岩中”大文人郑板桥一生爱竹，诵竹，为后人留下许多与竹相伴的千古绝唱。二、三年级的孩子们在语文老师的带领下，走进竹子的一生，积累了与竹相关的成语与谚语，并深入学习、感受了白居易和郑板桥等诗人与竹子的渊源，以及竹子主题诗句背后所蕴含的深刻的中国文化和人生哲理。孩子们还利用生活中最为普通的纸杯、卡纸，自己动手做 “竹节”、做笔筒，并且将已学习到的与竹有关的成语、谚语和诗句写在了自己亲手做的“竹节”上，最后大家共同搭建出属于自己的竹子。
Zheng Banqiao, a great literati, loved and declaimed bamboo all his life. He left many unique songs accompanied by bamboo for posterity. With the help of Chinese teachers, Grade 2 and Grade 3 went into the life of bamboo, accumulated idioms and proverbs related to bamboo, and deeply studied bamboo, feeling the origin of bamboo poets such as Bai Juyi and Zheng Banqia, as well as the profound Chinese culture and philosophy of life behind bamboo poetry. The children also used the most common paper cups and paper cards in their lives to make their own “bamboo knots” and penholders, and wrote down the idioms, proverbs and poems related to bamboo on the “bamboo knots” they had learned. Finally, they worked together to build their very own bamboo knots.
吟竹 Singing Bamboo
“独坐幽篁里，弹琴复长啸。深林人不知，明月来相照。”伴着悠扬的乐曲，一、二年级的孩子们把王维笔下的《竹里馆》吟唱出别样的韵味。在音乐课上，老师带领孩子们了解了许多特别的竹制乐器如，雷声筒，雨棍和空灵鼓。孩子们还用这些乐器营造出了大自然的声音，走入了王维笔下雨过天晴，明月相伴的竹林深处。
“Sitting alone in the dark bamboo, playing the ancient Qin and Whistling. In the deep forest where people don’t know, only the moon will accompany me.” With melodious music, the children of G1 and G2 sang a different charm of “Zhuli hall” written by Wang Wei. In music class, the teacher led the children in learning about many special bamboo musical instruments, such as thunder cone, rain stick and hollow drum. The children also use these musical instruments to create the sounds of nature, and take a walk into the bamboo forest.
舞竹 Bamboo Dance
“蛮舞与黎歌，余音犹沓沓”，黎族人认为，竹是他们生活的财富，精神的依托。传统体育与竹文化又有着深厚的渊源。体育组的老师们便带领孩子学习抖空竹、踩高跷，感受了极具黎族特色的竹竿舞，将舞竹进行到底！
“The folk dance and Li song have a lingering sound.” The Li people believe that bamboo is the wealth of their life and the support of their spirit. Sports and bamboo culture have a deep origin in Chinesse tradition. The PE teachers led children learn how to shake diabolo, walk on stilts, experienced the bamboo pole dance and felt the fascinating characteristics of the Li people and their appreciation of bamboo.
戏竹 Bamboo Play
竹子，是大地的馈赠，是生活的工具，对于孩子而言，竹林更是玩乐的天堂。四年级的孩子们在竹文化学习周期间，用小竹筒DIY属于自己的竹风铃，并将极具竹风韵的诗词歌赋摘抄于风铃外侧。窗台边清风拂过，小竹筒之间的碰撞传出阵阵悦耳的声响。一年级的孩子们也在老师的带领下探索带有“竹字头”的文字，感受中国汉字的璀璨。课后同学们还把自己学到的汉字用英文翻译出来，并制作了精美的竹子卡片。
Bamboo is a gift from the earth and a tool of life. For children, a bamboo forest is a paradise for play. During the bamboo culture learning week, Grade 4 students used small bamboo tubes to hand-craft their own bamboo wind chimes, and inscribed poems and odes to bamboo on the outside of the wind chimes. The wind blowing by the windowsill, from the collision betwixt the small bamboo tubes elicited bursts of pleasant melodies. Under the guidance of teachers, Grade 1 students also explored Chinese characters with “bamboo lettering”, experiencing the brilliant intricacy of Chinese characters. After class, the students also translated their Chinese characters into English and made beautiful bamboo cards.
通过这一周的竹文化探索，竹的生长过程及用途被学生们一一知晓，竹的形、色、音的自然美感，其刚劲挺拔、虚怀若谷的意蕴之美，给孩子们留下了深刻的印象。我们说“君子如竹”，期待为孩子们埋下最美好的“竹君子情结”，在未来不断地生根，开花，结果！
Through this week’s exploration of bamboo culture, the growth process and uses of bamboo became well-known to the students. The natural beauty of bamboo’s shape, color and sound, as well as the beauty of its vigorous, upright and open-minded connotation, have left a deep impression on our children. “A gentleman is like a bamboo”. We expect to bury the best “bamboo gentleman” seed for our children. In the future, we will continue to sprout, blossom and bear fruit!
