The Teenager Public Welfare Institute of the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) organized an essay contest activity themed “Seeking for Spring Festival Atmosphere”. The contest held a sharing session of 18 outstanding essays that were selected from 504 articles in more than 20 primary and secondary schools in Beijing, on April 17th. 

The Teenager Public Welfare Institute's “Seeking for Spring Festival Atmosphere” project was launched during the winter holidays of 2018. It provided children with opportunities to experience and know more about traditional customs about Spring Festival, like listening to the stories of Chinese traditional customs from senior people, learning skills with handicraftsman, and having interviews with sanitation workers, which helped children to understand traditions and customs about China’s Spring Festival and other traditional festivals.

The 18 little essay writers shared their experience from these activities. “This Spring Festival is very meaningful. We should inherit our traditional techniques and arts rather than watch them to decline. We can do our best to get these arts back to our lives, and let more people understand, love, and inherit these cultures,” said Tu Yingqi, one of 18 essay writers.

The institute facilitated children and teenagers to better learn from the Chinese nation’s traditional culture for thousands of years through personal experience and creative thinking. It will launch more cultural heritage social practice activities in a combination of family tradition education.