“Recalling the orange osmanthus in the Mid-Autumn Festival, I see flowers and moon glassing themselves in the cup”. With the Mid-Autumn Festival around the corner, the School of Public Affairs and Law of Southwest Jiaotong University held the Mid-Autumn Festival gala of 2021 undergraduate at 7:00 p.m. on September 19, 2021, in the Zhan Tianyou Gymnasium, Jiuli campus, in order to help students to celebrate the first festival in the university and strengthen their communications with teachers and the university.
During the preparation period, students actively enrolled for the gala and the class committee wrote the planning scheme of the class and organized the class programs, and the counselor Chen Zedong reviewed all the planning schemes carefully and arranged decorations for the stage, making full preparation for the smooth of the activity. A few days before the start of the activity, students sent invitations to their supervisors and received enthusiastic replies and warm wishes.
At 6:30 p.m., when the afterglow of the sun scattered on the campus of Southwest Jiaotong University, decorating the grass and flower with a layer of gold, students and teachers began to enter the Zhan Tianyou Gymnasium one after another. At the entrance, volunteers were responsible for handing out masks to students and teachers and disinfecting their hands in line with the epidemic prevention requirements. Gao Fan, Secretary of the Party Committee, Yu Xiaoying, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Xue Jing, Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Committee, Liu Guihua, Director of the Department of the Public Administration, teachers including Xie Yuhang, Lin Jingjing, Yan Xueyong, and Wu Xiao, a teacher appointed by Xinjiang of the Students Affairs Department of the Party Committee arrived the scene as guests. Besides, Mo Tailin, the postgraduate counselor, Tang Ming, the undergraduate counselor of 2018, Shi Peijin, the undergraduate counselor of 2019, Xu Nan, the undergraduate counselor of 2020 and Chen Zedong, the undergraduate counselor of 2021 attended the activity.
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At 7:00 o’clock, the gala commenced in the wake of the greeting of the hosts. First, teacher Gao Fan, Secretary of the Party Committee delivered the festival message to the students, shared her first Mid-Autumn Festival experience at the university 35 years ago, and expected students to leave aside their homesickness for a moment and to participate in the activities and celebrate the festival together.
As telecom frauds grow in popularity, how do we protect our property? The first program answered the question in a manner of sketch comedy named “People Fight Against Fraud to Build a Better Home”. The sketch comedy combined dancing and singing to show the whole process of fraud, and the result reversed and culminated in the cheater being caught by the policeman at last. The vivid performance was beneficial to improve the self-defense awareness of students. And the second and third programs enabled us to enjoy an audiovisual feast, including the songs sung by four singers, dances, chorus, and raps, which impressed the audience there. Funny and encouraging, with the combination of modern and classic characteristics, the melodious tunes of songs witnessed the talents of students of the School of Public Affairs and Law.
The game “Pictionary” as the highlight attracted the attention of the audience. While students on the one side were performing the pictures, students on the other side felt confused about their actions, which made the audience burst into laughter. Finally, by guessing 9 idioms correctly, the boy group won the pretty prize prepared by the program group.
The rest of the programs were still exciting. The program named “A Moonlit Night on the Campus of SWJTU” showed elegant dance and sound singing, enabling students to immerse themselves in a night of flowers and moonlight. The fifth program combined the song “Back to Summer” with individual dance, leaving an unforgettable impression on students. Since the students of the School of Public Affairs and Law came from different areas of China with different nationalities, the program named “Meshrep” showed us the dance of the ethnic minority, from which the students felt the unique ethnic customsasXinjiang Uygur dance steps displayed along with the music of western regions.
It came to the game time -- “Count to 7”. The rule was that you should clap your hands instead of counting when meeting numbers containing 7 or multiples of 7. Along with the elimination of rounds of students, the circle shrank and the last three students won the game. Who could be the lucky dog in the lottery link? As teacher Gao Fan drew straws to announce the student’s numbers, two students won the prizes, which may become their unforgettable memory of the Mid-Autumn Festival as the Chosen Ones.
As the soft moonlight ran out from the darkness of the night, the gala came to an end. After the gala, the counselor organized all the teachers and students to take photos together, and all the smiling faces were captured by the camera shutter. Finally, we gazed at the bright moon hanging in the sky and the soft moonlight to express our thoughts and feelings and store the memories in applause and laughter.
