First, the significance of college opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of colleges and universities is generally an important campus cultural activity for freshmen to enter school in September every year, and it is also the opening stage of ritual education for students, which is of great enlightenment significance for students to start chasing their dreams in colleges and universities.
1, the inheritance carrier of university campus culture
As an important part of campus culture in colleges and universities, the opening ceremony helps students to leap from high school to university through personal participation and experience. Colleges and universities usually elaborate their own distinctive ideas through the ceremony settings such as the president's speech, the presidents' special congratulations, the seniors' experience talk and the freshmen's speeches, and show the humanistic taste and care of campus culture through the carefully prepared opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony of Ji Liang University in China has always been highly valued by the university. All school leaders attended the opening ceremony and even invited professors and experts from foreign universities to attend the ceremony. For a long time, China Ji Liang University has formed a unique metrological cultural feature from its establishment to its development. As the highlight of the opening ceremony, the principal will explain how to encourage new students to study and make progress in school by combining the campus material culture and spiritual culture contained in the unique measurement culture of the school. For example, at the opening ceremony of freshmen in September of 20 15, President Lin Jianzhong expounded how universities should "strengthen themselves" from five dimensions: erudition, interrogation, deliberation, discernment and perseverance. What he calls "erudition" means mastering knowledge. There is a "cyber building" on campus to express who is more knowledgeable among the students. When he said "interrogation", he meant examination and questioning. There is a "Tian Wen Science and Technology Activity Center" on campus, which expresses that students should be good at asking questions, dare to ask questions and digest knowledge with the attitude of "Tian Wen". "Careful thinking" refers to careful thinking, careful thinking on campus, expressing that everyone has the courage to explore things and understand the way to be a man. "discernment" is discernment. The school has a "seeking truth from facts building", which requires us to truly explore and discover the true colors, internal relations and development prospects of things with the combination of science, rationality and ideals. He refers to "faithful practice", and the school has a "knowledge building", which is to consolidate and improve what he has learned with practice and guide practice with knowledge.
In addition to the school-level opening ceremony, some secondary colleges will also hold college opening ceremonies. No matter at the school level or the college level, on the basis of their own reality, the characteristic metrology culture and college characteristic culture are integrated into the set links, so that the metrology campus culture is imperceptibly integrated into the students' hearts, and at the same time, the unique campus cultural characteristics of China Metrology University are displayed.
2. The symbolic starting point of students' dreams
Symbolism or symbolization is an important feature of ceremony, from an object to the whole action. The opening ceremony symbolizes the starting point for students to formally enter the university, and symbolizes the starting point for their self-realization and struggle. As an important part of the opening ceremony, some elements also have important symbolic significance. For example, the president's lecture will be extended to the characteristic construction of campus culture according to the historical allusions of measuring cultural characteristics, and combined with measuring unique culture, it will tell students how to spend their four-year college life here.
Second, the educational function of the opening ceremony of colleges and universities
The opening ceremony of colleges and universities is not only a simple congratulatory function, but also carries the ideological and cultural concepts of colleges and universities. For freshmen, this is a brand-new life ceremony and a serious confirmation of their new roles and responsibilities in the process of growing up. Therefore, the opening ceremony has a subtle educational function for freshmen in terms of sense of belonging, emotional cohesion, campus cultural identity and dream-chasing motivation.
1, belonging to the function of emotional cohesion.
In a specific field, participating in the experience and feeling of the atmosphere in the form of ceremony will have a cohesive effect on the sense of belonging of the participants. Emotional cohesion is mainly reflected in the interaction between teaching and being taught in the field of common life.
Every link of the opening ceremony can make students feel the strong atmosphere at the scene, and the surrounding students participate in the real emotional expression, which has accelerated the emotional cohesion of freshmen to the new collective. It is beneficial for students to cultivate a new sense of role orientation in the process of participation. The starting point of freshmen's growth in school is determined at the ceremony. The "spiritual collective" formed by freshmen's participation in the ceremony education process, students feel the collective spiritual cohesion in a process mode of spiritual docking, which is conducive to the formation of collective emotional belonging.
2. Campus cultural identity function
The opening ceremony of colleges and universities is one of the important carriers of university humanistic spirit, and the accumulation of campus cultural spirit and the gestation of humanities are integrated into the ceremony. The opening ceremony bears rich connotations of campus culture and conveys the essence of the university and the inside information of campus culture to freshmen.
At the annual opening ceremony of China Jiliang University, senior students share their college life, and freshmen make presentations. Senior sharing is the enlightenment that freshmen begin to feel the collective identity of China Ji Liang University and identify with the campus cultural atmosphere while listening to the wonderful life sharing of the university. Through this collective experience of students' roles, freshmen can deeply feel that they are a member of the measurement and a member of the group, so as to realize their mission to the development of the whole class and even the school, let them feel that they are concerned and transformed into an important force for progress, and stimulate their expectation and pursuit of understanding the campus environment.
3. Stimulate the dynamic function of chasing dreams
For college freshmen, the opening ceremony is the first major ceremony for them to enter the university, and it begins to give them a new social identity as college students. At the ceremony, the president's encouragement to pursue dreams, the seniors' sharing of university study and life, and the unique expressions of the presidents' welcome words all reminded freshmen that they have officially entered the university gate. The sharing and expectation of principals, teachers and seniors reflects their social responsibility education. Through this series of ritual agendas, we can build a unique life memory network for freshmen, thus strengthening their collective memory as a group of China Ji Liang University.
The opening ceremony of colleges and universities is an important organic part of the construction of campus cultural life, which will have an increasingly important impact on the construction of campus culture and the growth of students during and after leaving school. This ceremony symbolizes the beginning of what freshmen call the explicit symbol of college students' identity, and also symbolizes the beginning of their pursuit of their dreams. The whole ceremony contains the spirit of university culture and unique campus culture. Through this collective ceremony, freshmen learn and inherit campus culture, preserve and enrich campus cultural memories, which is conducive to enhancing collective cohesion and cultivating a sense of identity with their alma mater. Ceremony is not only an important educational function of college students, but also a powerful carrier of campus culture construction.