Students showed their designs at a traditional costume design class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15. (Photo/Chen Zeguo, Xinhua)

In recent years, Hongwei Primary School in Tianxin District, Changsha, has vigorously implemented the national "double reduction" policy to alleviate students' academic workload. It collaborated with some professional organizations to offer various interested-oriented classes after school, such as paper cutting, making kites, designing traditional costumes, facial makeup, cloisonne painting, rubbing, and Chinese shadow puppetry. These classes allowed students to experience the intangible cultural heritages, aroused their interests in traditional Chinese culture, promoted inheritance of the intangible cultural heritages, and facilitated implementation of the "double reduction" policy.

Students tried their hands at making rubbings at a rubbing class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15. (Photo/Chen Zeguo, Xinhua)

A student held high and showed her paper-cutting work at a paper cutting class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15. (Photo/Chen Zeguo, Xinhua)

Students tried their hands at making cloisonne painting at a cloisonne painting class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15. (Photo/Chen Zeguo, Xinhua)

A student made a kite at a kite making class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15. (Photo/Chen Zeguo, Xinhua)

Students showed each other their shadow puppets at a Chinese shadow puppetry class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15. (Photo/Chen Zeguo, Xinhua)

A teacher explained paper-cutting methods at a paper cutting class at Hongwei Primary School, Changsha, on May 15.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: Xinhua