On November 14, the School of International Education of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and the School of Chinese Traditional Culture of Chengdu Normal University jointly held a cultural practice activity themed "Continuing the Legacy · Passing on the Craft". Centered on inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture, the activity invited Wang Huaicheng, associate researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, as the keynote speaker.
Twenty international students from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and over 20 undergraduate students from Chengdu Normal University jointly visited the site of the Northern Zhou King Wen Stele in Longquanyi, Chengdu, to gain in-depth understanding of stele culture and engage in a profound dialogue with the millennium-old historical civilization in the on-site setting. Taking "The Guanlong Style and Folk Beliefs of the Northern Zhou King Wen Stele" as the theme, Wang Huaicheng carefully interpreted the Northern Zhou King Wen Stele and its historical culture, and systematically sorted out the core value and academic status of the stele by combining with the historical materials of the inscription. In the calligraphy practice session, Chinese and foreign students made and wrote unique bookmarks by hand. In the process of copying and creating stroke by stroke, they not only practiced Chinese calligraphy but also condensed their observations and feelings into the small bookmarks, which became the most precious memory of this trip. Through the lecture and on-site visit, international students intuitively realized how a precious cultural relic connects history, art and folk beliefs, becoming a code to interpret an era.
As one of the series of "Knowing and Doing China" social practice activities for international students of the university, this activity combines classroom theory with on-site research, allowing international students to travel through time and space, touch China's profound historical context with their own hands, and greatly stimulate their enthusiasm for learning and understanding Chinese history and culture. In the future, the university will continue to build a practical education platform for international students studying in China, to promote people-to-people exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, it is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province, and a university included in the national "Double First-Class" initiative, "Project 211", and "Project 985 Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform".
The history of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics can be traced back to Guanghua University, which was founded in Shanghai in 1925, and later established a branch in Chengdu in 1938. After the departmental adjustment from 1952 to 1953, the university absorbed the finance and economics departments of 17 institutions in the southwest region, forming Sichuan Institute of Finance and Economics. After several changes, it restored its original name in 1978, was placed under the administration of the People's Bank of China in 1979, was finally renamed Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in 1985, and came under the management of the Ministry of Education after 2000. In 1997, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics became a key construction university of the national "Project 211"; in 2011, it became a construction university of the national "Project 985 Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform"; in 2017, it became a national "Double First-Class" construction university. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics is one of the first batch of "Innovation Practice Bases for Cultivating High-level International Talents" and one of the first batch of pilot institutions for "Quality Certification for International Students in China" in Sichuan. The "Africa Research Center" and "Bay of Bengal Countries Research Center" have been approved as national and regional research centers registered with the Ministry of Education.
