Chinese Cultural Camp
Arts & Culture
Malaysia is a country with several of races and ethnics. Each races have their own unique cultures and traditional costumes, included Malaysian Chinese. Organizing this camp is giving all Malaysian Chinese from different university in Malaysia a chance to understand and embrace their culture that have mostly being forgotten by not only Malaysian Chinese, but all Chinese from all over the world.Why is this happening? All of this started when the Ming Dynasty falls and China being ruled by the Manchurians（满洲人） for centuries. In that period, all Chinese cultures and traditional costumes were vanished by the Manchurians in order to take over the country and turn them to their kind. It was said that to vanish a race, you have to vanish its culture first. So the Chinese(so called Han“汉”) were forced to shave their hair and wear the Manchurian’s traditional costume.A huge crowd refused to shave their hair that time because it was said that hair is a part of what your parents gave and should be cherish. That is why a lot of Chinese were killed by the Manchurians with the slogan of “keep your hair without your head or keep your head without your hair”. Centuries passed, Chinese nowadays no longer know what is really their culture and traditional costumes. Pity to know that most of the Chinese wear Cheongsam and Samfu which is modified by the Manchurian’s traditional costumes and thought that those costumes are Chinese traditional costumes.Until an organization, which is Young Malaysians Movement (YMM) started to think and find out our true traditional costumes and cultures after discovering Hanfu, which is the Chinese Traditional Costume. So they stared to organize camps and talks in schools and public. Unfortunately, most of the Chinese university students are not able to attend these camps because of the financial problems. So, this camp is held to enable all Chinese students from different universities to attend this camp for 2 days and 1 night. With Khind Starfish Foundation, this program will be organized smoothly without worrying the financial problems.Furthermore, this camp will be having a lot of activities such as teaching Chinese traditional manners by the professionals who studied about this. Also, the participants will be having a chance to learn the Chinese traditional archery(汉射) in order to learn a lesson which is self-reflection. Thus, all Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia stand a chance to know each other and share their opinions.
Overview of Issue / Background
Malaysia is a country with several of races and ethnics. Each races have their own unique cultures and traditional costumes, included Malaysian Chinese. Organizing this camp is giving all Malaysian Chinese from different university in Malaysia a chance to understand and embrace their culture that have mostly being forgotten by not only Malaysian Chinese, but all Chinese from all over the world.
Why is this happening? All of this started when the Ming Dynasty falls and China being ruled by the Manchurians（满洲人） for centuries. In that period, all Chinese cultures and traditional costumes were vanished by the Manchurians in order to take over the country and turn them to their kind. It was said that to vanish a race, you have to vanish its culture first. So the Chinese(so called Han“汉”) were forced to shave their hair and wear the Manchurian’s traditional costume.
A huge crowd refused to shave their hair that time because it was said that hair is a part of what your parents gave and should be cherish. That is why a lot of Chinese were killed by the Manchurians with the slogan of “keep your hair without your head or keep your head without your hair”. Centuries passed, Chinese nowadays no longer know what is really their culture and traditional costumes. Pity to know that most of the Chinese wear Cheongsam and Samfu which is modified by the Manchurian’s traditional costumes and thought that those costumes are Chinese traditional costumes.
Until an organization, which is Young Malaysians Movement (YMM) started to think and find out our true traditional costumes and cultures after discovering Hanfu, which is the Chinese Traditional Costume. So they stared to organize camps and talks in schools and public. Unfortunately, most of the Chinese university students are not able to attend these camps because of the financial problems. So, this camp is held to enable all Chinese students from different universities to attend this camp for 2 days and 1 night. With Khind Starfish Foundation, this program will be organized smoothly without worrying the financial problems.
Furthermore, this camp will be having a lot of activities such as teaching Chinese traditional manners by the professionals who studied about this. Also, the participants will be having a chance to learn the Chinese traditional archery(汉射) in order to learn a lesson which is self-reflection. Thus, all Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia stand a chance to know each other and share their opinions.
Project Objectives (Vision & Mission)
- To spread the knowledge of Chinese culture and Chinese traditional costumes to the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia.
- To attract interest and increase the knowledge of Chinese cultures and manners among the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia by encouraging them to wear Hanfu in their daily life and in university and spread their knowledge about Chinese cultures to others.
- To create an environment for the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia to gather together in order to share and exchange opinions.
Project Details (Activities and Tasks)
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
25/11/2017 (Saturday)
Time Activity
9.00am – 10.00am Attendance , Breakfast
10.00am – 11.00am Ice Breaking
11.00am – 11.30pm Briefing / Explaination
11.30am – 1.00pm 1st Activity : Learning the Chinese ethics
1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm – 4.00pm 1st Talk : The history of the extinction of Chinese
Culture
4.00pm – 5.00pm 2nd Talk : Introducing the Chinese Traditional Costumes
5.00pm – 6.30pm 2nd Activity : Introducing the Chinese Traditional Ceremonies
6.30pm – 7.30pm Dinner
7.30pm – 9.00pm 3rd Activity : Hanfu Making
9.00pm –10.30pm 4th Activity : Practice to build Self-disciplines and Selfconfidence
10.30pm End of the activities for the first day in camp
26/11/2017 (Sunday)
Time Activity
9.00am – 10.00am Attendance , Breakfast
10.00am – 12.30am 5th Activity : Learning the Chinese tradisional Han Achery
12.30am – 1.30pm 3rd Talk : The Ancient Chinese history
1.30am – 2.30pm Lunch
2.30pm – 5.30pm 6th Activity : Station Games
5.30pm – 6.30pm Certificate Giviing Ceremony
6.30pm – 7.00pm Speech
7.00pm End of the Camp
Expected Project Result & Outcomes
Increase the knowledge of Chinese cultures and manners among the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia.
Encourage the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia to wear Hanfu in their daily life and in university and spread their knowledge about Chinese cultures to others.
SOFTSKILLS LEARNING OUTCOME
- Communication Skills
- Criticize Thinking Skills
- Teamwork
- Moral and Professional ethics
- Leadership
0% of RM1.00 Goal
Project Information
| University name | : | Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris |
| Project leader name | : | Gwyn Chew Kar Yan |
Section I
Just as stated in the proposal, the goal of having this event is to spread the knowledge of Chinese culture and Chinese traditional costumes to the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia. Furthermore, this event is held to attract interest and increase the knowledge of Chinese cultures and manners among the Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia by encouraging them to wear Hanfu in their daily life and in university and spread their knowledge about Chinese cultures to others. Other than that, we also hope that this event can be held again and again in order to protect our culture.
After this event, I am happy to say that, we made in. All the participants gain knowledge about Chinese culture, some of them even cried when they are able to wear their traditional costume for the very first time. All participants said that they can’t wait to spread these precious culture to their friends and family. I am glad that I had fulfilled my goal after all the hard work for months.
To be honest, this event really did cost a lot, the fund from Khind Starfish Foundation was truly not enough. That is why we had to collect participation’s fees from the participants. Other than that, all the committee have to raise fund for this event too.
The biggest problem I had was some of the Hanfu was stuck in the airport because a lot of people shopping online from TAOBAO. Although I had estimated the time arriving, I cannot detect such sudden case that delayed the time arriving. I was so stressed out that time but still I have to figure out a PLAN B. Luckily I still managed to get most of the Hanfu. For some participants without Hanfu, I had lent some committee’s Hanfu with similar size as the participants in order to let them experience and learn to wear Hanfu. For the delayed ones, I managed to send it to those participants through poslaju.
Moreover, this event gave a long-term impact to all 22 committees and 60 participants because what they had learnt will be passed to more people. Some even said that they wanted to hold this kind of event in their university to spread Chinese Cultural knowledge to more people in their university. From this event, I have learnt that “When you fail, you need self-reflections instead of reasons to blame.” (行有不得，反求诸己)
Before this, I did not knew that holding an event, especially a two days one night camp was that complicated and difficult. I need to go through a lot of paperwork and procedure as this was a university event. Furthermore, there is a lot of preparation before, during and after the event. We even had a two days training camp two weeks before the Chinese Cultural Camp in order to give our best shot. Through this event, I really learn a lot about Chinese Culture, gain a lot of experiences. Just as Colin Powell said “A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” Having a Chinese Cultural Camp in my university was my dream, that is why I really appreciate that my lecturer (Doctor Khor) and Khind Starfish Foundation gave me this golden opportunity to make my dream come true. “Wearing Hanfu, starts from you and me” (穿汉服，从你我开始) (Quote indicated by Gwyn Chew Kar Yan to encourage more Chinese to start wearing their traditional costume – Hanfu)
Thank you so much.
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