Hanweiyang

Using the power of youth to promote the contemporary rejuvenation of Chinese traditional culture.

Goals

Beginning from everyday life, to rejuvenate traditional Chinese culture as contemporary living culture, reestablishing it as a part of Chinese people's actual lived experiences, and achieving a complete rejuvenation of Chinese culture from the material to the spiritual.

Major Projects

• Han Ethnic Festival Activities
• Chinese Etiquette Courses
• Traditional Ceremonies such as Weddings, Coming-of-Age Ceremonies, and Religious Ceremonies
• Shanghai's Only Traditional Chinese Bells Orchestra
• A Variety of Traditional Performances and Activities

Major Achievements

• 2008, Communist Youth League Jiading District Committee, “Jiaqing District Top Ten Youth Star Social Organization”
• 2009, Communist Youth League Shanghai Committee, “Shanghai Expo Rainbow Project Officer”
• 2010, Director Yuan Yao received Communist Youth League Shanghai Committee, “Shanghai May Fourth Youth Medal”
• 2012, Shanghai Mass Culture Award Fund Committee, “2011 Shanghai Mass Culture Work Advanced Group”

Major Funders

Jingan District Shimen Second Street Subdistrict Office

Major Partners

Communist Youth League Shanghai Committee, Communist Youth League Jiaqing District Committee, Our Youth Home (上海青年家园中心), Southern Weekend (南方周末)

Distinctions

We emphasize the transmission of culture from the material to the spiritual. We emphasize the practicability, interactivity, and experientiality of cultural transmission. We emphasize the reestablishment of Chinese ceremonial life, so that ceremony can become a link running through an individual's life.