Campus 06 Shenzhen Daily Wednesday January 3, 2018Email: debra_lidan@163.com

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China Post issued the fi rst zodiac stamp for the Year of the Monkey in 1980. The other 11 zodiac signs were printed on the stamps, one by one, in successive years. It’s become a time-honored tradition and the stamps featuring Chinese zodiac signs have become precious treasures for collectors.

As the Chinese Year of the Dog is approaching, Shenzhen students were invited to design their own zodiac stamps.

An exhibition of the win-ning designs from the Second Shenzhen Youth Chinese Zodiac Stamps Design Contest was held at Century Place shopping mall in Huaqiangbei on December 23, attracting many visitors.

A project under the banner of “Everyone enjoys good design” featured in Shenzhen’s Creative December, the competition launched in September enlisted more than 800 designs created by students aged 6 to 16. The works take the forms of sketches, oil paintings, watercolors, prints, cartoons and cliparts.

Among these, “Auspicious Dog Brings Blessing” designed by Liu Sitong of Liyuan Primary School won the gold prize; “Red Fortune Comes to the Year of the Dog” by Shang Qianying of Nanyuan Primary School and “Auspicious Dog Presents Luck” by Su Kaiyi of Shenzhen Longgang Science and

Technology City Foreign Language School won silvers; and works by Liu Yipeng and two others from the Shenzhen Rainbow Anime Research and Development Center won bronzes.

“Kids learn outside the class-room while they have fun design-ing stamps,” said Huang Xinxing, an art teacher of Liyuan Primary School, adding that the school paid special attention to the tradition of stamp collecting. It set up the fi rst children’s post offi ce in the city back in 2010. “The Chinese zodiac stamps design contest provides a platform for students to showcase their imagination and talent. In our school, they can also send letters

with the stamps they designed themselves.”

Zhang Jing, a member on the jury for the competition, said that the stamps designed by students this year were creative and rich in connotations.

“The students blended the his-tory and Chinese cultural tradi-tions into their designs,” he said. “The dog, as we Chinese people see it, is a symbol of loyalty, bravery and friendship.”

The competition, sponsored by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Admin-istration of Shenzhen Municipality, aimed to bring the charm of stamps to students, who are the future of carrying on Chinese traditions. (Chen Xiaochun)

Young designers show talent with zodiac stamps

More than 300 families partici-pated in the fi nale of an ice paint-ing competition, where fi nalists joined hands to complete the ice painting at a 1,500-square-meter ice skating rink after a series of tryouts.

The competition, held in MH Mall, Longhua District on Decem-ber 24, aimed to boost children’s aesthetic education.

Unlike previous ice painting events, this competition, themed “Discover the World,” has inte-grated elements of culture, art, architecture and customs from all over the world. Through team collaboration, these young contes-

tants have contributed their dis-tinctive works to the large world map made of ice.

In addition, as a part of the competition, a roadshow session has given contestants a chance to explain their works, sharing

their views of the world and their aesthetics.

The innovation-driven competi-tion has also proffered an unprec-edented experience for children both in form and content. Accord-ing to the judges’ scoring, gold, silver and bronze prizes were given to individuals, and a winner, runners-up and second runners-up were selected for groups.

The largest ice painting event ever held in Shenzhen, the com-petition was jointly organized by Shenzhen-based educational institutions Dodo Bear Art Family and Minmaxs.

(Zhang Yu)

Ice painting competition in Longhua

It’s a very special Christmas Eve for students at the senior high campus of Shenzhen Foreign Languages School (SFLS) in Yantian District, as they were holding a gala to mark the closing of their annual foreign languages festival that lasted 45 days.

The young thespians performed 10 dramas and musicals, includ-ing “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamilton,” “Aladdin,” “Wicked” and “The Sound of Music” in English, “Murder on the Orient Express” in Spanish, “Notre-Dame de Paris” in French as well as “Sleeping Beauty” in Japanese. Adapted from a classical repertoire, the shows retained the original storylines but were spiced up with a contemporary sense of humor.

Huang Huihui, a 10th-grader, impressed the audience with her voice performance of an excerpt from the animation “Kung Fu Panda.” “I couldn’t tell if that’s the original voice cast or Huang’s performance,” said a student in the audience. “She’s incredible!”

Also performing during the evening were the school’s choir, instrumental club, a cappella club, comics and anima-tion club and street dancing club. The three-hour gala concluded with a bang when members of the street dancing club rocked the audience with a dance titled “Move Your Body.”

Offering courses in six foreign lan-guages that include English, Japanese, French, German, Russian and Spanish, the school is one of few secondary schools in China that teach several foreign languages. (Debra Li)

Students shine at foreign languages festival

300余小画家携手眩美冰绘

深圳外国语学校高中部外语节圆满落幕

People at an exhibition of the winning designs from the Second Shenzhen Youth Chinese Zodiac Stamps Design Contest at Century Place shopping mall on December 23. File photo

Families during an ice painting competition in Longhua on December 24. File photo

Food festivalStudents try out snacks during an annual food festival on the junior campus of Shenzhen Foreign Languages School on December 29. Seventh- and eighth-graders and their parents prepared the dishes for the food fair, whose total revenue of more than 1,000 yuan (US$153.8) was given to the needy in the commmunity where the campus is located. Wang Hua

SFLS students perform a dance during their Christmas Eve gala. File photo