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The SCNU Freshmen Welcome Evening Party was held on September 29 at the University Town campus. The event was also broadcast live on line, receiving over 120,000 likes on the live stream that night.
With the theme of Sailing a New Journey and Striving for a Vigorous Youth, the show was divided into three parts, namely “Me for SCNU”, “Me for the Greater Bay Area” and “Me for the powerful country”, which included various forms of performance such as chorus, dance, instrumental performance, short scene plays and recitation.
Me for SCNU: Chasing the High-spirited Dream of Youth
An Ode to SCNU, a choir performance with recitation.
The first part of the performance aims to show the spirit of students and teaching staff of SCNU. With the recitation led by teachers Zhang Ning and Zhou Jiawen, the school choir performed “An Ode to SCNU” to express SCNU’s initial goals and missions of working hard to achieve great goals.
Short play “Youth in the Grass Hut.”
The short play “Youth in the Grass Hut” recalls the hardship of material penury in the 1950s, demonstrating how SCNU students studied diligently and industriously in school buildings with roofs made of grass and achieved great gains under hardship.
Compendium of Materia Medica, a martial art performance featuring Hip-Hop elements.
Compendium of Materia Medica was a martial arts performance which was combined with Hip-Hop, interweaving tradition with modern style and showing the unique charm of excellent Chinese traditional culture.
The cheer-leading performance “Hello, SCNU” performed by freshmen showed the vitality of the new students. Freshmen representatives also appeared on stage, vowing to show their ambition for the new journey.
Freshmen representatives make a vow after the cheer-leading performance Hello, SCNU.
Me for The Greater Bay Area: Setting Sail for a New Journey
The awardees of “Challenge Cup” sing Dreaming Future, the theme song of “Challenge Cup” with the Electronic music band.
The second part of the evening party showed the connection between the Greater Bay Area and SCNU. Student representatives who had won the Grand Prize in the 17th “Challenge Cup” of the National Undergraduate Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest sang the song “Dreaming Future”, the theme song of the “Challenge Cup”, with the Electronic music band, expressing the spirit of pushing the limits and promoting the development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"Lingnan in Dance" was a suite of dances composed of five types of dance, namely the Cantonese Lion Dance, the Lufeng Money Encourage Dance, the Chaoshan Yingge Dance, a Hakka Cup Flower Dance and a Long-drum Dance, which are part of the intangible cultural heritage of China. Integrating five cultural symbols of Lingnan history in dance, it tried to reveal the beauty of Lingnan culture and fill it with new vitality in the new era.
A Cantonese Lion Dance is normally operated by two dancers, one of whom manipulates the head while the other forms the rear end of the lion. 
The Lufeng Money Encourage Dance is danced with the Money Drum, a hexagonal single-sided leather drum with a number of copper coins on one side.
The Chaoshan Hero Dance features acrobatic dances, martial arts, musical numbers, and other displays of talent.
The Hakka Cup Flower Dance is a traditional dance from Xingning, Guangdong, in which dancers dance with special porcelain cups.
The Long-Drum Dance is a folk dance of the Yao, from the Liannan Autonomous Country of the Yao ethnic group, Guangdong.
Together with students, Professor Lu Qingli and the young teacher Lilu Tailong of the School of Music, sang the songs “Pearl of the Orient” and “Songs of the Seven Sons” which convey the strong affection of the people of Hong Kong and Macau towards the motherland.
Performance of the songs “Pearl of the Orient” and “Songs of the Seven Sons”.
The art troupe of SCNU produced a modern dance performance named “Sail to the Future”, vividly depicting how to chase dreams despite fierce storms and waves on the way.
Modern dance Sail to the Future performed by the art troupe of SCNU.
Me for the powerful country: Creating the new chapter for China together
Battle Steed Galloping, an Ensemble of Erhu players.
The third part of the performance expressed the patriotic passions of youth at SCNU. Collaborating with students, vice professor Zhang Lin and teacher Zhang Yu of the School of Music performed the enthusiastic melody of Battle Steed Galloping, an Ensemble of Erhu players, conveying the ambition and determination to serve the country.
The Power of Youth, an original song accompanied by dance.
The school art troupe sang the original song "The Power of Youth” to show respect for medical workers and volunteers who fight against the epidemic on the front line.
The modern dance “Far Mountains are not Far” reproduced the moving story of volunteers of SCNU who taught voluntarily in the western part of China with all their efforts and enthusiasm. The situational recitation “Sending Gifts to the Motherland with the Flower of Youth" showed how youth of SCNU merged their goal with that of the country and promoted their growth with volunteering.
Far Mountains are not Far, a modern dance representing the volunteering teaching story of students of SCNU.
Sending Gifts to the Motherland with the Flower of Youth, a situational recitation showing the goals and spirits of volunteers in SCNU.
At the end of the freshman welcome evening party, all students and staff members present waved the national flags and sang the song “My Motherland and Me” together, expressing wishes for the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and hoping for the stability and peace of the country and a promising future of SCNU.
All participating staff and students sing My Motherland and Me together at the end of the freshman welcome evening party.
Source: SCNU News Center
Translated by Long Yuchen, Shen Jiatong, Liu Yujia
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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