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A teacher shows children how to write the Chinese character "人" ("ren" which means "person") during the First Writing Ceremony at the Confucius Temple in Jilin, Northeast China's Jilin province, June 19, 2014. More than 100 pre-school children participated in the traditional ceremony. [Photo by Wang Mingming/Asianewsphoto] |
The First Writing Ceremony, also called the Qi Meng (Enlightenment) Ceremony, was once a very important ceremony for every student before they were admitted to school in ancient China. Teachers usually gave them a red dot on their forehead to open the "wisdom eye".
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