Teacher’s Day falls on September 28, which is Confucius’ birthday. Socrates and Confucius are both 5th-century BC philosophers who had a great impact on the education. Traced back to Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770 - 220 BC), there were Hundred Schools of Thoughts promoting their ideas in many ways like life, thinking, and humanity. At that time, teachers had to travel country to country to find a king that accepted their ideas and called them teachers. Conficius is one of them and his ideas we called it as Confucianism, or Ruism. Ruism had a great impact on the whole Asian world and even now people in Taiwan and China are still reading his famous book called Lunyu.
Confucius died in 479 BC, and his students collected Confucius' words into a book called Lunyu. Most of Confucius' students became teachers and spread Confucius' ideas through out Asian world. In addtion, people viewed Confucius as God and built up a temple for him and set up some ceremony to worship this great teacher. Confucius was so important that people see him as a model of teacher and regard his birthday (0928) as teacher's day.
Confucius
Who is Confucius? 孔子
Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period. ( 771 to 476 BC )
The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin dynasty. Confucius's principles have commonality with Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor veneration, and respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives, recommending family as a basis for ideal government. Confucius is widely considered as one of the most important and influential individuals in shaping human history. His teaching and philosophy greatly impacted people around the world and remains influential today
references
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty1RCzT3GFY
國中國文-作者動畫─孔子
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdmIf3iuYMM&t=39s
至聖先師孔子
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ksYLIWnQw
Confucianism / Ruism 儒家文化
Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life.
20 sentences from Confucious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWJyMppyQk
Famous book: Lunyu 论语
http://www.confucius.org/lunyu/lange.htm
memorize the great teacher : Confucius Temple 孔廟
Confucius was the Grand Master. His influence of education is important to Chinese, as well as the Chinese culture. Confucius Temple is the symbol of Chinese Confucian culture. Taipei Confucius Temple is one of the most famous Temple in Taiwan. Taipei Confucius Temple was built as the original temple in Qu Fu, Shantung. The Temple shows the art of architecture, the beams, columns, windows and doors are plain without carving, appearing the modest and humble of Confucianism. Confucius Temple is part of Dalongdong Culture Area, and it is not only a heritage, the venue for Confucianism broadcasting, but also an attraction for tourists.
臺北孔廟 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUKmUFJAPtM
Ceremony 祭孔大典
The temple holds ceremony on September 28, the birthday of Confucius, to commemorate Teachers’ Day. The ceremony follows the ancient ritual since Ming Dynasty. The display of music and dance, known as “display –presentation ceremony”, are in the veneration of Confucius.
祭孔程序為三獻禮: 初獻、亞獻與終獻:
八佾舞dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJDPvrU4o0
REFERENCE
https://www.sim.org.tw/festival18.html
game: 孔子点点名 https://confucius.hle.com.tw/
Teacher's day in Taiwan
(photo from Taiwan 頭城國中)
Middle school students mark Teacher’s Day with “Tetris challenge”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5nyipOhCI
Although Confucius died two thousand years ago, his words still live in our mind forever. Schools in Taiwan will have some special activities to memorize the great teacher Confucius and thank all the teachers who worked so hard in their fields. We
拔智慧毛
While we worshiped Confucius in the Temple, we prepared some meat and wine. In ancient times, we will serve Confucius a whole ox or a whole pig which sounds scary but it's true. Then, after the ceremony, people could pulled some fur of the ox which means you took some wisdom from Confucius. Nowaday, we don't serve a real ox but we make a fake one; we don't pull out the fur but we put some pens for students to take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcDdwwFVtA
过葱(聪)门
In elementary, teacher will decorate the door with two vegetables, one is Celery and the other is scallion. In Chinese, the pronunciation of celery means diligent and the pronunciation of scallion means smart. Teachers will lead the kids to go through the Celery & Scallion door which means the students will become diligent and smart.
celery - diligent / scallion - smart
奉茶
On teacher's day, students will serve their teacher a hot tea for showing their gratitude to teacher. Besides, if you see 奉茶 in Taiwan which means free tea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-UsttbGwQs
story book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Myxjk4Hsgk
YouTube song
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