FISF Staff Activity in June: Experiencing Folk Customs of The Dragon Boat Festival

Release time：2021-06-10    

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is known as Dragon Boat Festival, with the green reed leaves and fragrant sticky rice. Upon its arrival, Dragon Boat Festival provides an opportunity to embraced fun folk customs and national identity. FISF successfully organized a staff activity on June 9^th 2021 at the north campus - the 1^st FISF Zongzi Making Competition. In the midst of a welcoming atmosphere, Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF General Party Branch, along with nearly 30 teaching staff, took part in this activity, experiencing the traditional folk customs, raising the understanding of traditional culture and further stirring up their affection for the home nation.

Zongzi, a symbol of inherited folk culture and food culture having lasted for thousands of years, still has infinite charm in people’s hearts.

Before the competition started, staff members had already laid out all their materials like sticky rice soaked in advance, fresh meat and salted egg yolk on the table. Ladies of the north campus dining staff kindly displayed each step to making zongzi, including: folding the reed leaves, filling in the sticky rice and wrapping tightly and twining the reed ribbons. The whole series of steps were done smoothly and quickly. Through professional technical instructions, the teaching staff grasped the skills of making zongzi and anticipated tasting the result of their labor and placing high in the competition.

Participating staff were divided into 5 competing teams. At the starting whistle, the zongzi making competition commenced. All team members acted flexibly and showed off their special skills, rolling up the reed leaves with both hands, filling in the sticky rice, adding delicious fresh meat and salted egg yolk, twining the reed ribbon left and right and finishing by tightly fastening the knot.

The combined scents of the sticky rice, the crystal salted egg yolk, the marbled fresh meat and the green fresh reed leaves danced in the hands of quick-witted and nimble-fingered staff. In little time, a number of angular, plump, cute and fragrant zongzi were born. Everyone had a great time “competing”.

The competition ended after 50 minutes, and hundreds of different-looking zongzi of various styles sat in 5 baskets on the display table. Secretary Yuejiang Li and the representatives of each team gave an overall assessment to the quality and quantity of the zongzi made by each team, and selected a winning team in the first FISF Zongzi Making Competition. Secretary Li congratulated and awarded the winners.

Through experience, understanding, and the delicious and savoring finality of the competition, the teaching staff have experienced the fun of traditional folk customs and gained the awareness of the meaning of the dragon boat festival during this meaningful activity. Their emotional communication and team cohesion also strengthened in the atmosphere of the traditional folk custom.

[FISF Staff Courses]

FISF HR Department has established the FISF Staff Courses for all the staff, covering three themes of “professional knowledge course”, “Fudan humanistic course” and “healthy life sharing”. Expert professors or lecturers in the industry are specially invited to give face-to-face sessions to colleagues in order to help them improve professional skills, humanistic qualities, and create a positive and optimistic atmosphere of team culture.

Article Source: FISF HR & FISF MARCOM