As Sise Garden entered its 100th anniversary, a series of celebration activities kicked off immediately.
In addition to holding public exhibitions and lantern festivals, the garden will also hold a simple and grand opening ceremony for the students, so that they will be enlightened by Master Kong Sheng and remember the principles of life and virtue.
The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple Supervisory Institute believes that the public has gradually forgotten the importance of respecting teachers and respecting the morals, and hopes to pass on this culture through the writing ceremony.
The enlightenment ceremony of Master Kong Sheng in Xin Chou Year (2021) hosted by Sise Sik Garden was held today (12th).
Starting in 2018, the park will hold a pen ceremony every year for Primary One students to participate.
Under the epidemic, the writing ceremony was resumed for the first time this year, attracting more than 140 students to participate.
The ceremony was personally designed by Chief Li Yaohui (Yi Jue) of the Superintendent of Wong Tai Sin Temple in Sik Sik Yuen. It is a combination of ancient writing ceremonies, Taoist rituals and Confucian teachings, and modern methods. In addition to inviting educators to preside, it also Incorporating religious elements, worship Master Kong Sheng in the only pavilion dedicated to Master Kong Sheng in Hong Kong, preaching the importance of respecting the teacher and respecting the Tao.
The writing ceremony is a form of enlightenment education for children to start literacy rituals. It is of great significance to the new students and their parents. It symbolizes the beginning of a new journey in life.
A group of students will wear Confucian costumes to participate in the ceremony. It is said that "clothes are first, but things are clear afterwards." Since the "clothes" reflect the spiritual outlook of people, they wear Confucian costumes so that they can remember the excellence of the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Morality and etiquette are the first steps for knowledge and rationality.
The opening ceremony invited Li Zijian, the Academic and Chief Vice President of The Education University of Hong Kong, and Han Xiaorong, Dean of the Department of Chinese Culture of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as officiating guests, and Li Yaohui (Yijue), Chief Supervisor of the Wong Tai Sin Temple Supervisory Institute and Sik Sik Yuen Chairman Ma Zehua presided over the launching ceremony.
After the ceremony, the chairman of Sise Garden, Ma Zehua, led the crowd to incense, and then the main section chief opened the altar. After that, the preachers recite the Sermon of Master Huang Daxian.
Li Zijian gave an exhortation speech during the banquet to exhort the students to study diligently, hoping that they would understand that in addition to their studies, they must also adhere to traditional virtues and cultivate morality.
After that, Han Xiaorong "drumming and Mingzhi" for the students. "Ming" means "ming". "Mingzhi" means "mingzhi", which means that students can understand their own ambitions.
The louder the drumming under the ceremony and the farther the sound spreads, the greater the ambition and the clearer the goal.
Han Xiaorong, the dean of the Department of Chinese Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "beats the drums and mobs" for the students.
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Learning to write human characters is like learning to support each other
The writing ceremony is set up for primary one freshmen. Writing literacy is the first step in learning culture, and it implies the enlightenment stage of life.
Among them, learning to be a man is the most important.
In order for the students to appreciate the principles of being a person, the garden will arrange teachers to lead the students to teach on the spot, writing the word "person", and the word "person" is like learning to support each other and how to be an upright person. .
Under the guidance of the teacher, students write the word "person" and learn the principles of being a person.
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After learning how to write the word "人", the students will kneel and knock down to the first sage three times, then enter the Lin Pavilion dedicated to the ancestor Kong Sheng to worship and incense, and worship and salute to the ancestor Kong Sheng, hoping to pass traditional Confucianism The inheritance of Buddhism and Taoism allowed the students to be blessed by Master Huang Daxian, enlightened by Master Kong Sheng, and cultivated morality.
Li Yaohui used cinnabar to spot the mole on the center of his forehead for the students in the Lin Pavilion, which means to open up wisdom for the children, and from then on, the eyes will be bright and the heart will be bright.
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The student leads "green onion, celery, vegetable and garlic", which means cleverness and diligence
Chief Li Yaohui (Yi Jue) of the Wong Tai Sin Temple Supervisory House will order cinnabar for the students one by one.
The act of touching sand is also known as "Cinnabar Enlightenment". The cinnabar is placed in the middle of the forehead of a child who has just entered school to form a red mole. The "mole" and "wisdom" are homophonic, meaning to open wisdom, meaning that the child has a bright eye and a bright heart. Grow up healthily and safely, so as to entrust good wishes.
After completing all the ceremonies, the students who participated in the writing ceremony will be able to obtain the chanting blessings, the certificate of sprinkling cleansing, a brush, a set of exquisite stationery and a set of "green onion, celery, garlic, and garlic" which symbolizes wisdom and diligence in the ceremony.
Among them, the brush is one of the "Four Treasures of the Study", which is a wish for students to be brilliant and literary.
Supervisory Institute: Hope that the culture of respecting teachers and emphasizing Taoism can be passed on
Director Li Yaohui (Yi Jue) of the Wong Tai Sin Temple Supervisory House of Sise Sik Yuen said that the writing ceremony is like an enlightenment to school children. As a teaching philosophy, in addition to allowing students to follow the virtues of Master Kong Sheng and establish a correct outlook on life, it also prepares them for the start of school.
Director Li Yaohui (Yi Jue) of the Wong Tai Sin Temple Supervisory Institute said that the writing ceremony is like an enlightenment to school children.
Through the writing ceremony, he hopes to pass on the traditional culture such as respecting the teacher and respecting the Tao.
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He mentioned that the new generation advocates freedom, but gradually forgets the importance of respecting the teacher and respecting the morals. The culture of morality and five ethics lacks inheritance, so he decided to start the opening ceremony in 2018 and insist on holding it every year so that the public has the opportunity to contact Traditional Culture.
Li Yaohui believes that Taoism and other cultures can coexist and complement each other, but morality must not be ignored.
He very much agrees with the saying that "being a teacher for a day, and a father for life", "I hope that the market can not forget the tradition and use innovative methods to interpret moral thoughts, and respecting the teacher and the way is an important part."
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