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nanhai.com reported on september 14 (by reporter huang ting): “the way of university is to manifest the bright virtue, to love the people, and to strive for the highest good…” on the evening of september 12, 239 freshmen from hainan university’s hyde college read “the great learning” together and shared their thoughts. they received traditional chinese cultural education in this special way, thus completing the role transition and announcing the official start of their university career.

freshmen from hainan university's hyde college read the great learning together. photo provided by the school

"in addition to the principles of being a human being, i also realized the significance of the great learning to modern education." lian shu from the second class of biotechnology at hainan university said that she received the great learning from the college before the start of the semester and had read the book carefully during the holidays. at the beginning of the semester, she reviewed the book with her new classmates and talked about her reading experience, which further increased her understanding of the great learning.

freshmen from hainan university's hyde college read the great learning together. photo provided by the school

it is reported that the theme reading activity of "reading the great learning before going to college" has been carried out among more than 2,500 college freshmen since 2018. the activity advocates "reading the great learning carefully and aspiring to be a virtuous person".

"let students practice "the great learning" in their lives and achieve the unity of knowledge and action." han shengding, secretary of the party committee of hyde college, said that after the new students are admitted, the college will send them the book "the great learning" and a special "summer homework", asking the new students to do something thoughtful for their parents before entering school to express their gratitude for their parents' love; experience their parents' hard work and understand the real working world; at the same time, calculate the family bill and express gratitude for their parents' kindness; make an initial plan for college life and visit those who have experienced it; and send a letter home to convey deep friendship.

"we hope that through this activity, we can integrate filial piety, college career planning, and traditional cultural learning into practice, put the adaptability education for college freshmen in the forefront, integrate ideological and political education into life education, give full play to the function of explicit and implicit education in coordinating education, and make ideological and political work more down-to-earth and warmer." han shengding said.