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Wellington Pupils Win 12 Chinese Language Festival Awards
The Chinese Language Festival Association held their 2nd Chinese Language Festival recently. Along with thousands of Chinese learners from eight regions around the world, the pupils from Wellington College Tianjin joined the festival. Each of them tried their best to show what they learned in Chinese and presented a wonderful Chinese feast.
YEAR 6
Our year 6 pupil Matthew won the championships for “Non-Native Upper Primary Chinese Brush Calligraphy” and “Non-Native Upper Primary Traditional Chinese Painting”.
His calligraphy work “Hai Na Bai Chuan” completely showed his deep understanding and love of Chinese calligraphy with powerful and smooth brush strokes and staggered typography.
“Hai Na Bai Chuan”
Matthew’s Chinese painting "Early Spring" enchants the viewer with beautiful light and strong ink. It is hard to imagine that such a beautiful painting and such profound calligraphy and painting skills came from a year 6 boy from the UK. Matthew lived up to our expectations by winning both titles.
"Early Spring"
Marcus, a pupil from year 6 stood out and won the runner-up category in “Native Upper Primary Modern Poems Solo Recitation”, award of merit in “Native Upper Primary Four-frame Comic Drawing”, and runner-up in “Native Upper Primary Chinese Composition”.
The most noteworthy part is that Marcus showed the evolution of Chinese characters from oracle bone script to Jin script to regular script in his comic work. Every audience could appreciate the profoundness and long history of Chinese characters in his work and this is exactly the original purpose of the Chinese Language Festival.
Besides Marcus, Sophia who was also in the group, also won third place in “Native Upper Primary Modern Poems Solo Recitation” and runner-up in “Native Upper Primary Tongue Twisters”.
EARLY YEARS
In the Chinese storytelling competition for the early years group, Zane’s performance impressed us all. He told the story of “notching the boat in search of the sword”. Although his voice was soft, his pronunciation and meticulous attitude impressed all the judges. He won the excellent award in “Native Kindergarten Storytelling”, "Native Kindergarten Ancient Poems Solo Recitation" and the championship in “Native Kindergarten Reading Out Pinyin Consonants”.
Zane’s brother, Zohen, seeing his brother’s outstanding performance, did a great job as well. He won the award of merit in both “Native Middle Primary Chinese Composition” and “Native Middle Primary Storytelling”.
Zohen's Composition
The Chinese Language Festival came to an end with the pupils from Wellington College Tianjin winning 12 awards in total. The pupils’ passion for learning Chinese was greatly encouraged by this impressive result and more and more pupils are joining in to learn Chinese. We hope our Wellingtonians will continue to work hard for more excellent results in the next competition.
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