20 10 composition contest for middle school students

New concept composition contest. This is the best composition contest in more than ten years. It is estimated that 20 10 will start in May.

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I. Origin

Since the end of 1997, the media in China have paid great attention to Chinese education in middle schools.

During the period of 1998, the literary publication Germination, which is mainly aimed at young students, also organized a group of articles with the theme of "What should education do". From this series of articles, we can see that Chinese education in middle schools is facing a huge crisis, which is far from meeting the needs of the times.

The problem of Chinese education in middle schools is to turn Chinese full of human beauty and interesting life into mechanical boring exam-oriented training. "Rational teaching mode" runs through the field of Chinese teaching. This model advocates abstraction, generalization, refinement and logical thinking ability, but ignores the intervention of emotion, will and aesthetic interest; Pay attention to the deconstruction and quantification of all Chinese knowledge, but ignore the cultivation of students' Chinese ability from the overall perspective of text and humanities; Attach importance to the complementarity of Chinese subjects. Moreover, this "rational teaching mode" further stifles students' comprehensive Chinese ability because of the implementation of standardized examinations. The science examination mode of multiple-choice and true-false questions is getting worse and worse, and the most humanistic, aesthetic, flexible and creative Chinese education has become purely technical and almost rigid mechanical training.

It is in this context that the "New Concept Composition Contest" came into being. Its starting point is to explore a way to make Chinese teaching return to its humanity and aesthetics, and make Chinese subject full of lofty ideals, creativity and imagination truly become the basic subject to improve students' comprehensive quality.

Second, the form of participation.

1998, the first new concept composition contest began. Facing the new century and cultivating new talents, the "New Concept Composition Competition" is jointly sponsored by seven national key universities including Peking University, Fudan University, East China Normal University, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Shandong University and Xiamen University. The contest invited domestic first-class writers, editors and humanities scholars as judges. There is no registration fee and no restriction except that the number of words in the preliminary contest is less than 5000 words and the contestants are under 30 years old. The "new concept" aims to advocate:

"New thinking"-creative and divergent thinking, breaking the shackles of old ideas and old norms, breaking rigid and conservative, and advocating freedom.

"New expression"-not limited by subject matter and genre, using one's own language full of personality, opposing cliché s, opposing one thousand people and speaking with one voice.

"Real experience"-truly, sincerely and sincerely pay attention to, feel and observe life.

The competition is divided into preliminary, semi-final and final. The preliminary contest follows the form of essay writing in general literary journals, with no proposition, unlimited subject matter and genre, less than 5000 words, and has never been published in public journals. The winner of the preliminary round participates in the semi-finals; The rematch was held in an examination room. The examination questions are selected by secret ballot and supervised by the notary office.

Third, development.

/kloc-since 0/0, the number of participants in the "New Concept Composition Competition" has increased from the initial 4,000 to 70,000. With the continuous expansion of social influence, the cooperation power of colleges and universities has expanded to 13, and Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Normal University, Wuhan University and China Renmin University have also joined the team of co-organizers.

For a long time, under the examination system implemented by us, colleges and universities have no right to make suggestions and inspections, and can only passively accept the results of the "College Entrance Examination". As for the misunderstanding of Chinese education in middle schools, in her nearly 50-year publishing career, in contact with young students and with experts and scholars from many first-class universities in China, Bud has increasingly felt the negative effects of this misunderstanding: the lack of reserve talents in literature and humanities. The "New Concept Composition Competition" makes full use of the natural connection between Germination and writers and scholars all over the country, and its authority has also been recognized by the heads of colleges and universities, so that the winners of the competition can establish contact with colleges and universities through the competition, play an important role in transporting reserve talents in humanities in the future, and become a favorable supplementary form for selecting talents in the college entrance examination, which is known as the "Chinese Olympics" in China. In the first competition, Chen Jiayong, Song Jingru, Wang Yue, Yang Qian, Wu Di, Li Jia and Liu Jiajun were admitted to Peking University, Nankai University, Nanjing University and East China Normal University. Huai Sha, Zhang Yixuan, Xu Renjie, Chen Kai, Li Yisu, Zhou Jianing, Qi Youyi, Li Jing, Zhang Yao Chen, Lin Yao, Liu Lina, Ying Youjia, Zhou Niqin, Chen Andong and Sun Jiani were admitted in advance by Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University, Nanjing University and Xiamen University. Sun Yat-sen University added 20 points to the fifth champion Wang Haoshu and enrolled Huang Ruijie in the seventh session. Even a second prize winner entered CUHK. Peking University even reserved places for the winners of the new concept through independent enrollment, and successively admitted Zhang Sijing, Qian Hao and other liberal arts talents. Tsinghua University admitted Nankai University, YiBo, the fifth winner, and Zhang Xinyue, the seventh first prize winner. Li Yaocen, Dai Lili and Hu Jian were admitted to Wuhan University.

The manuscript of New Concept has brought a fresh wind to the literary world. Many works make the judges Tie Ning, Ye and other famous writers unable to believe that such wonderful articles were written by middle school students. The chairman of the jury and even Wang Meng said happily, "We can stop writing." Writer Zhao also lamented that "no one can erase the brilliance of youth." Found many potential young writers, and expanded the basic population of literature. Most of the post-80s writers who are increasingly active in today's literary world are new concept writers.

Cai Yuanpei, a famous educator, once put forward the viewpoint of "replacing religion with art". It is pointed out that literature should have humanistic and aesthetic functions, mold people's soul, cultivate people's spirit and cultivate humanistic feelings. This is related to the quality education we advocate, and it is also the responsibility that the "New Concept Composition Competition" always requires itself to bear. Many winners of that year closely linked their lives and careers with literature, while more winners did not regard literature as their lifelong career or way of life. They didn't become writers and didn't enter the liberal arts. Literature is their way to nourish their souls and emotions, and they are always lovers and readers of literature. Ai Lu, the winner of the second first prize, studied in Tsinghua University Water Conservancy Department; Li Yisu studied law, and now she is a graduate student of law in Peking University. Ren Liang, the first prize of the Second New Concept Composition Competition and the first prize of the Olympic Chemistry Competition, finally chose the Chemistry Department of NTU. Guo Yun won the first prize of the fourth provincial mathematics competition and the first prize of the new concept for two consecutive years. He loves philosophy. Du Fu, a five-time graduate, and Liu Feng, who graduated in the same year, chose life science. When Huang Ruijie was admitted to CUHK for the seventh time, he was allowed to choose his major freely. He chose physics ... This seems to coincide with the comprehensive quality emphasized by the education sector and the budding purpose of "making literature a spiritual home for young people". After all, few people can become writers, and the more important role of literature may be to make it the pillar of one's soul.

Fourth, social impact.

Since 1999, many newspapers and periodicals in China have reported the great impact of the "new concept composition" contest on China's traditional education, which has triggered profound thinking on exam-oriented education and quality education from all walks of life. The Chinese teaching method in Shandong experimental middle school can win the first prize in the competition year after year, and it will also trigger new thinking and hot spots in the education circle with people's attention to the competition.

Han Han, the winner of the first prize excavated in the contest and regarded by the media as a "high-caliber repeat student", has caused a far-reaching topic in the education circle of China. School education, family education and media opinion all have to re-examine and think about the existing talent training methods.

However, Han Han, Jing M.Guo, Gong Wenyu, Zhang Yueran and many other writers trained by "new concepts" have become the leading figures of the post-80s generation, and they have achieved a double harvest in literature and business, which has become an unavoidable topic in the literary world.

In the overseas Chinese community, this activity also affected Rilong. Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao once used a full-page report on the new concept composition contest. Hong Kong Tiandi Book Company has published the traditional Chinese version of the award-winning work "Shocking the World for Teenagers". Many young China students have returned to writing in their mother tongue. Every year, we have entries from overseas.

It is exciting that Chinese education in middle schools has also undergone great reforms in recent years. Many people think that the proposition of college entrance examination composition is quite close to the rematch of the new concept composition contest, which is a very good development trend. As Wang Meng said, the new concept comes from the old concept. Advocating new concepts is not unconventional, but to increase young students' interest in composition and tell them that only authentic, creative and imaginative articles are good articles.

Of course, we will continue to work hard to make new concept compositions constantly innovate; It is necessary to prevent new concept composition from entering new routines.

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Maybe in May, you can buy a book called Germination, which contains a call for papers and an application form. The advantages of this composition contest are: first, it is formal; Second, it is conducive to further study. If you are a graduating student and get an award, you may be given priority to enter a national key university, provided that you study well; Third, unlike the stereotyped writing competition, as long as you have personality and writing style, you can win prizes.

In addition, the Olympic Cup National Composition Competition: /olympic/