Festive action of the Confucius Institute: "This is our common Victory!"

Among the numerous events dedicated to the Victory Day, there was an action held by the Confucius Institute called “This is our common Victory!”. Indeed, the victory in the Great Patriotic War for the Soviet people and in World War II is common for the Chinese people, and it all went to a very high price. Like Belarusians, the Chinese cherish the memory of those who died defending their homeland from foreign invaders. The director of the Confucius Institute from the Chinese side, Wang Lei, cited a very interesting fact: there is a military museum in his hometown of Nanjing, one of whose exhibits is devoted to pilots who took part in the liberation of this city, which was the capital of China in the 1940s. On the huge memorial stele of this museum are carved the names and surnames of 3,306 Chinese and foreign pilots who participated in the battles for the liberation of Nanking. Among these surnames are many surnames of Soviet pilots, among whom may be natives of our country.

The action “This is our common Victory!” Was decided to devote to demonstrating the centuries-old culture of China and showing the activities of the Confucius Institute, opened one and a half years ago at our university. A roll-stand of the Confucius Institute was installed on the site on Lange Street, and on the tables in the form of photographs information about its activities was presented. Here, Chinese teachers Wang Gaozun, Tan Lin and Wang Xiaolun demonstrated their skills in writing hieroglyphs, in weaving knots from multi-colored threads and in cutting out patterns from paper. But the greatest interest of all participants of the festivities caused, of course, the opportunity to try to write at least the most simple hieroglyphs. First of all, everyone was interested in how the hieroglyph with the meaning “victory” looks like, as well as hieroglyphs denoting common human values ​​- “friendship”, “happiness”, “peace”, “love”, “good”. Chinese girls patiently explained how to write the mysterious hieroglyphs, and encouraged to write them and preschoolers, and schoolchildren, and students (including - foreign), and adults - from young fathers and mothers to gray-haired pensioners. Many of those who, albeit temporarily, but joined the Chinese writing and culture, were interested in how to learn Chinese at the Confucius Institute, what age limits exist, and in what conditions classes are held. These and other questions were answered in detail by the Director of the Confucius Institute and Wang Lei and Deputy Director V.I. Koval.

Great help in organizing and holding the action “This is our common Victory” was provided by the employees of the youth initiatives and student self-government departments Ekaterina Fedorenko, Dmitry Tarasov and Lyudmila Dubrovskaya.

Vladimir Koval