Zhaoyuan County Super Mongolian Township School has a matouqin band. Now, half of the 21-member matouqin band are children of Han and other ethnic minorities.

The band was formed in 2017. Although the "team age" is not long, it is very famous in the village and county, and has also participated in large-scale performances in the provincial capital. Before and after, more than 100 people have studied in this band.

The super Mongolian township school is not big, but there are quite a few "organizations" like matouqin, there are 17 in total, including "characteristic organizations" that inherit national culture such as matouqin, dance, and Mongolian bamboo calligraphy, and some Basketball, volleyball, football and other popular groups. These teams are organized by the school and funded by the township government. The United Front Work Department of the County Party Committee and the County Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau also attach great importance to them. If there is any lack, they will give strong support and coordination with just one sentence.

Matouqin plays harmony

In August 2017, the leaders of the Super Mongolian Township School planned to set up a matouqin class to teach children how to learn the matouqin.

As soon as the matter was reported to the township, the township party committee and government immediately decided: despite the organization, if there is any difficulty, the township will solve it; if there is a lack of funds, the township will subsidize it.

As a result, the school began to "recruit". In the first batch, more than 10 students were recruited. There are Mongolian children, Han children, and children of other ethnic minorities. The township government subsidized part of the funds, and the school bought matouqin and Mongolian clothing, and the class was established.

Cui Baizhong, a teacher of a super Mongolian township school, a Han nationality, with a bit of matouqin foundation. In order to teach students well, Cui Baizhong followed the "masters" in the county to learn temporarily, and at the same time he systematically studied with teachers. Over the years, he has become a "master". At that level, teaching children to learn the piano is very easy.

From 2017 to the present, the Matouqin team has trained more than 100 Matouqin musicians. The names of Zhaoyuan Chao and other matouqin associations also drifted to the county and city with the melodious sound of the matouqin.

Liu Jingbo, the principal of Chaoda Mongolian Township School, told reporters that there are currently 21 students in the Matouqin team in Chaoda Township, including Mongolian students, Han students, Manchu and Xibo students.

Here, matouqin is no longer the "patent" of Mongolian students, but has become a culture that children of all ethnic groups learn and inherit together.

Bamboo pen writes ethnic feelings

In addition to matouqin, the school also has a bamboo brush calligraphy class.

Bamboo pen calligraphy is unique to the Mongolian people. The bamboo is scraped into pieces, like a knife, and written with ink, paying attention to pushing, pulling, lifting, hooking, and picking, and the handwriting is neat and smooth, just like a printed matter.

As early as 2013, the Super Mongolian Township School introduced bamboo brush calligraphy into the classroom.

Wu Changjiang, a Mongolian, is a teacher at the Super Mongolian Township School. In 1988, when Wu Changjiang, who had just started working soon, went to study in Dulbot County, he discovered and fell in love with bamboo brush calligraphy.

Wu Changjiang wanted to carry forward and inherit this national culture, so he reported to the school leaders and set up a bamboo brush calligraphy class. The school leaders immediately made a decision: do it.

Bamboo brush calligraphy classes were established, but there were no formal teaching materials. The school ordered that the work of compiling systematic textbooks would be handed over to Wu Changjiang. In one year, the textbook "Mongolian Bamboo Brush Calligraphy" was completed. The Provincial Department of Education found this textbook when it came to Chaodan Township to guide the work, and immediately brought it to the province for improvement.

At present, there are more than 60 children in the existing bamboo brush calligraphy class. Among them, Han children accounted for 20%. At the same time, many Mongolian children in this class, while learning bamboo brush calligraphy, also learn Han calligraphy. Regular cursive and official script are also neatly arranged.

Super Township has not only achieved remarkable results in promoting and inheriting national culture, but also achieved outstanding results in popularizing and popularizing popular culture.

The youth football team of Chaochi Township is the "Real Madrid" of Zhaoyuan County. There are many competitions at the county and city level, and the super Mongolian township schools almost swept the top three, and the school was also rated as a national campus football school.

Volleyball, even more powerful, is the provincial and municipal volleyball base school. So far, in the Super Mongolian Township School, one volleyball player has become a national first-level athlete, and seven volleyball players have become a national second-level athlete.

"Red Pomegranate" Yinghong Super Township

Super Township, there are 17 ethnic minorities in the township. All ethnic groups live in harmony and are like a family. In terms of culture, they both inherit and integrate; in terms of development, they work together to build a common beautiful home.

In the township, the Red Pomegranate Ethnic Culture Museum was established to display the ethnic culture, fishing culture and folk customs of 7 villages and 34 natural villages in the township. Since its opening in August 2021, the Red Pomegranate National Cultural Center has not only become a good place for cadres and masses to visit and tour, but also a red education base for students.

Zhang Xiqing, Secretary of the Party Committee of Chaodang Township, said that Chaodang Township takes the Red Pomegranate National Cultural Center as its position, and focuses on building the consciousness of the Chinese nation's community. Promote the nations, hold together like pomegranate seeds.

Super Township is one of the four demonstration townships of ethnic unity and progress in the province. Now, they are moving towards higher goals.