Closing Meeting of International Youth Camp for Traditional Culture Experience Held in Beijing
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Chinese and foreign youths are participating in the experience activities with capital family representatives
Representatives of all the parties speaking out their voice in the summing-up meeting
On the morning of November 24, 2014, the closing meeting of International Youth Camp for Traditional Culture Experience was held in Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center. When talking about feelings and understanding, Bilal, a foreign student invited to the meeting, said excited, “I’m so glad to have such an opportunity to communicate directly with Chinese youth and families. I hope I can take part in such activities often!” The words received passionate smiles and applause of other participants.
In fall of 2014, Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center co-worked with universities and social bodies in Beijing to co-hold International Youth Camp for Traditional Culture Experience, which included a series of activities. From September to November, Chinese and foreign student volunteers from universities in Beijing, such as Communication University of China, and representative families from downtown Beijing, were organized by the Camp for several times to visit Bage Village at the foot of the Great Wall in Miyun County, Beijing, where they had detailed communications with the villagers. The magnificent landscape of the Great Wall, the rich folk cultures of the time-worn village and the crafts passed on from generation to generation show the international youth the charms of outstanding Chinese traditional cultures. The new village image in Beijing and the villagers’ worships and insistence of harmonious family climate and decent family tradition also further impressed the international youth. On the other hand, the international youth brought vigor and strength of different cultures from different countries to those villagers living a simple life and opened a window for them to learn about the outside world.
At the meeting, Monica, a representative of the international youth from America, specially pointed out, “… This place is like American countryside very much. Though the cultural backgrounds and living traditions differ, the happiness is the same, which comes from harmonious and peaceful families.” Bilal from Pakistan added, “This activity is really awesome, offering us a better experience of the traditional wisdom of China!” Representatives from downtown Beijing said that the important role of women in life is a special discovery in this activity. Women are the main drive for a harmonious family climate; even in an ordinary village, it is actually felt that a harmonious family climate mostly relies on women’s influences over the relations inside the family. The villagers highly valued the exchange activities and expressed their eager hopes for enriching rural cultural life, upgrading rural women’s competence and developing an internationally-oriented vision. Experts from China Women’s University and representatives from the education circles also expressed their own opinions in relation to gender equality, family tradition building and traditional culture heritage, etc. Communication on the meeting site went under a hot atmosphere. Representatives attending the meeting proposed feasible suggestions on how to further develop the activities and how to form a long-term active mechanism of interaction and exchange in the future.
As the sponsor of the activities, Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center listened to various opinions carefully, and stated that it will keep organizing diversified international exchange activities on the themes of women and family, to boost the development of internationally-oriented vision, to facilitate cultural dialogues between China and foreign countries, to advance family culture building and to create a good atmosphere for constructing Beijing into an internationally-leading city that is harmonious and suitable for living.
In fall of 2014, Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center co-worked with universities and social bodies in Beijing to co-hold International Youth Camp for Traditional Culture Experience, which included a series of activities. From September to November, Chinese and foreign student volunteers from universities in Beijing, such as Communication University of China, and representative families from downtown Beijing, were organized by the Camp for several times to visit Bage Village at the foot of the Great Wall in Miyun County, Beijing, where they had detailed communications with the villagers. The magnificent landscape of the Great Wall, the rich folk cultures of the time-worn village and the crafts passed on from generation to generation show the international youth the charms of outstanding Chinese traditional cultures. The new village image in Beijing and the villagers’ worships and insistence of harmonious family climate and decent family tradition also further impressed the international youth. On the other hand, the international youth brought vigor and strength of different cultures from different countries to those villagers living a simple life and opened a window for them to learn about the outside world.
At the meeting, Monica, a representative of the international youth from America, specially pointed out, “… This place is like American countryside very much. Though the cultural backgrounds and living traditions differ, the happiness is the same, which comes from harmonious and peaceful families.” Bilal from Pakistan added, “This activity is really awesome, offering us a better experience of the traditional wisdom of China!” Representatives from downtown Beijing said that the important role of women in life is a special discovery in this activity. Women are the main drive for a harmonious family climate; even in an ordinary village, it is actually felt that a harmonious family climate mostly relies on women’s influences over the relations inside the family. The villagers highly valued the exchange activities and expressed their eager hopes for enriching rural cultural life, upgrading rural women’s competence and developing an internationally-oriented vision. Experts from China Women’s University and representatives from the education circles also expressed their own opinions in relation to gender equality, family tradition building and traditional culture heritage, etc. Communication on the meeting site went under a hot atmosphere. Representatives attending the meeting proposed feasible suggestions on how to further develop the activities and how to form a long-term active mechanism of interaction and exchange in the future.
As the sponsor of the activities, Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center listened to various opinions carefully, and stated that it will keep organizing diversified international exchange activities on the themes of women and family, to boost the development of internationally-oriented vision, to facilitate cultural dialogues between China and foreign countries, to advance family culture building and to create a good atmosphere for constructing Beijing into an internationally-leading city that is harmonious and suitable for living.
