The 2023 Zhejiang Provincial College Students’ Art Festival concluded in Hangzhou days ago. The TU teams won 10 first prizes, 11 second prizes and 2 third prizes, and the university the excellent organization award of the Zhejiang Provincial College Students’ Art Festival, the number of awards hitting a new high.

TU attached great importance to the competition that the University Youth League Committee and the University Student Art Troupe, along with all the involved second-level schools, worked together to create favorable conditions for the participating teams to do a good job in the contest. In this art festival, our university submitted 10 pieces of art performance works, 12 pieces of art works, 2 pieces of art practice works, and 1 case of reform and innovation of aesthetic education in higher educational institutions. During the nearly eight months of preparation, creation and rehearsal, the instructors carefully choreographed and instructed, and the students devoted themselves to the work, reflecting the spirit of teamwork and striving to be the first. It demonstrated the achievements of TU’s art education.

The projects that won the first prize in the provincial arts festival include:

the vocal work Chehuangge (“Lie Song”) directed by Chen Liuxing and Jiang Yefang, and the instrumental work Wanqiu (“Late Autumn”) by Luo Cheng, and Shanyuhuan (“The Phantom of the Mountain Language”) by Lin Jiayi, Ying Zhenyunxiao, and Shen Nannan;

the dance Judengyingying jiangshuiyao (“Orange Lanterns in the River”) by Chen Jiayu, Meng Dong and Lin Yuexian, and Huixiang (“Echoes”) by Wang Lin and Fan Kun;

the recital work Chibifu (“The Red Cliff Fugue”) by Jin Niya and Cheng Xiangrong;

the paitings of Yuge (“Fishing Song”) and Fuxinghao (“Revival”) by Ke Fukai;

the calligraphy work of Lunyujiexuan (“Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius”) by Wang Bo, and of “Two Poems of Yuan Chen Gao in Running Script” by Chen Jintian.

It is reported that the latest achievements of beauty education over the past few years in our province were showcased at this art festival with the theme of “National Soul, China’s Dream”. The festival was co-sponsored by the Provincial Department of Education, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Provincial Department of Finance, and the Zhejiang Radio and Television Group, as well as hosted by the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Wenzhou University, and the Zhejiang Provincial Association of School Art Education. A total of 770 programs of such five categories as instrumental music, vocal music, dance, drama and recitation from 102 higher educational institutions in the province have been submitted to the organizing committee for appraisal and selection. Ultimately, 183 programs among them were shortlisted for the field show; 665 pieces of art works, 40 pieces of workshops, 118 aesthetic education cases, and 10 calligraphy, painting and photography works were selected.