The principal inscribed a hundred words to promote the calligraphy program, using the name as the starting point to inherit Chinese culture

Chinese calligraphy is the essence of Chinese culture passed down for thousands of years. It inherits the spirit of literati and has profound cultural connotations. Using Chinese characters as a carrier, it touches on literature, history, philosophy, and is also connected with music and aesthetics. Caritas Chong Yuet Ming Secondary SchoolWe have always used diversified teaching to allow students to develop appropriately and build a positive and progressive spirit. Principal Pang Yiu Kwan loves literature and is obsessed with calligraphy. Therefore, in compliance with the trend of e-learning, he led the teaching team to jointly develop the "Good Names and Good Characters" mobile application to promote the benefits of learning calligraphy, thereby promoting traditional Chinese culture and virtues, and cultivating students to become pillars of society with both literature and art.

The principal’s handwritten inscription is the first step to write your name.

"Good Names and Good Calligraphy" aims to teach students to write their own names well, encourage them to study for a long time, improve their personal qualities, and cultivate aesthetic education. The application took more than half a year to design. The school used the names of Form 1 students as a pilot, based on the class list, and the principal wrote it himself as a template, and a technology company produced the program. Principal Pang Yiu Kwan said: "At first, I thought that I could build a sufficient database by sorting out the works of ancient and modern calligraphy masters and handing them over to technology companies. However, because artificial intelligence technology is still limited at present, computers have never been able to achieve the aesthetic vision of calligraphy. Therefore, I can only use the simplest way. According to the list of classmates, I write in regular script, and then the technology company uses a fixed-frame and fixed-point method to develop "Good Names and Good Characters."

By opening the app, students can find their own name page from the list. The system has built-in text strokes and glyph animations. Students can refer to the examples for copying and learning. The system will automatically score points and remind students who do not follow the stroke order to re-train according to the strokes. Principal Pang Yiu KwanAdditionally, although the program currently does not have aesthetic awareness and cannot be used to grade students' personal styles, and it restricts users to write in designated grid positions and write according to the proportions of the examples, it is however very suitable for beginners to copy and learn.

Establish positive thinking and cultivate yourself through calligraphy

Many studies have pointed out that learning calligraphy can help cultivate one's temperament, and that appropriate calligraphy training can be beneficial to physical and mental health. Because when practicing calligraphy, one needs to focus on the paper, concentrate without thinking, and exert every effort. Therefore, people can temporarily escape from reality and revel in the beauty of words, thus relaxing the spirit and exercising concentration. A school teacher pointed out: “After the launch of the ‘Good Names and Good Calligraphy’ mobile application, many students observed changes in their personal handwriting during repeated practice, and gained a sense of success because they could write neatly and neatly.”

Similar to "good names and good names", schools attach great importance to students' uniforms and appearance. As a symbol of students' identity, school uniforms help students cultivate civilized etiquette, team awareness, civic responsibility and other spirits, and increase their sense of identity with the school culture. In the process of learning, school uniforms can also serve as a tool for moral education, subtly improving students' awareness of self-discipline. Whenever a student is not well-dressed or well-groomed, teachers will patiently help students sort out their clothes. The teaching team believes that school uniforms can help students develop a sense of belonging to the school and learn to respect themselves and the group they belong to. In addition, the school has also extended the deeper meaning of grooming to calligraphy. As a values ​​education, the ultimate purpose of learning art is to correct manners, cultivate the mind and character, cultivate connotation, and enhance personal moral cultivation. Practicing calligraphy can exercise students' body and mind, thereby improving their concentration in learning.

Students actively participated and won praise for their handwritten Hui Chun

It has been almost half a semester since the launch of "Good Names and Good Calligraphy". During this period, Principal Pang Yiu Kwan has been very involved in the project, not only writing more than a hundred words as system data, but also personally correcting the students' personal name exercises. In order to unify teaching requirements and marking standards, he also discussed and exchanged calligraphy knowledge with the Chinese teaching team, sharing the historical background and brushwork concepts of regular script. “It is worth mentioning that ‘Good Names and Good Characters’ has a built-in dragon and tiger list, which will list the names of the participants with the highest scores. Therefore, after the program was launched, students reacted enthusiastically. Both students and teachers participated enthusiastically and actively. Even the technical developers of the program couldn’t help but try it out during the development process, striving for great results and filling the school with a Chinese cultural atmosphere.”

Before the program was developed, the school had attached great importance to creating a cultural atmosphere within the school. In addition to a good reading atmosphere, many students had made their debut in writing competitions and won many good results, and some students had swept multiple public calligraphy awards. Every New Year, Principal Pang Yiu Kwan will lead students with excellent calligraphy performance into the community to provide free handwriting services to the neighbors, sharing joy and peace by sending blessings to the neighbors. Principal Pang Yiu Kwan added: "The school regards the community as a venue for education, and hopes to build a heart for giving back to the society among students through activities. Before holding the handwriting Huichun service this year, a student originally refused to say it, saying that he could only write the word "福" well. With repeated encouragement from the teacher, he not only changed his mind and actively participated, but also used his creativity to draw rabbit ears on the character "福". This festive move won praises from the neighbors."