外语节主持稿参考范本

第一篇：外语节主持稿参考范本

开幕式和外语卡拉Ok大赛主持稿（主持要求：先英文后中文）

主持人：男

女

A:尊敬的各位领导、老师

Honorable leaders, teachers

B：亲爱的同学们，大家

And dear students

AB：下午好。

Good Afternoon

A：这一刻，我们仿佛听到了悠扬的轻吟

At this moment, as if we hear the melodious music

B：这一刻，我们仿佛感受到了天籁的声音

At this moment, as if we feel the beautiful rhythm

A：今天，我们相聚在这里，激情满怀，心潮澎湃

Today, we are gathering here with passion and surging

B：让我们唱响美好的未来。

Let’s sing the bright future

A：让我们梦想的羽翼更丰满----上海应用技术学院第七届外语节开幕式暨外语卡拉OK大赛

Dream takes wings flying higher----2010 The Seventh Foreign Language Festival Opening Ceremony of SIT(Foreign Language Karaoke contest)

AB：现在开始！

Now begins

A：此次外语节由上海应用技术学院学生处、校团委主办，外国语学院承办。

This festival is hosted by the Student Affairs Department of SIT &

Committee of Communist Youth League of SIT, Organized by School of Foreign Languages of SIT

B：现在向大家介绍出席开幕式的领导：

校党委副书记、副校长康年——欢迎康书记。

学工部部长、学生处处长、招生就业办主任徐大刚——欢迎徐处长

校团委副书记赵慧——欢迎赵书记

外国语学院院长陈家旭——欢迎陈院长

外国语学院党总支书记张淑梅——欢迎张书记

还有各二级学院的党总支副书记、副院长，让我们以热烈的掌声欢迎他们

卡拉Ok大赛主持词

首先介绍担任本次比赛的评委。

A:比赛之前我们代表组委会声明：为了使外语节的各项比赛更加公平。外国语学院的学生成绩不计入

综合评选成绩。

B：我们现在正式开始比赛。首先，我们欢迎1号选手，来自。。学院的。。，他的参赛歌曲是：（4位歌手演唱完毕，进行报分）

Yes, all the competitors are outstood from the various departments.O.k., enough of the blahblah, Let’s formally start.First, Let’s welcome the competitor 1, from…, the song is:…

宣布总成绩：先宣布最具潜力奖，最具创意奖，最佳人气奖。，最具台风奖，三等奖为***,二等奖***

一等奖（主持人可以稍作停顿）为**学院***同学。

所有的颁奖将在12月10日的闭幕式上进行。

A：我们无法阻挡时间的流逝，但可以阻挡自己的心情。

We can’t stop the passing of time, but we can keep our feeling

B：愿今晚美妙的歌声点缀你四溢的青春和洋溢的激情。

Wish you the wonderful song delight your youth and the passion.A：外语节，旨在让同学们在轻松的氛围中提高外语能力

Foreign language festival aims to let students improve the ability of foreign language in a relaxed atmosphere B：外语节，旨在让同学们在有趣的活动中感受外语魅力

Foreign language festival aims to let students feel the charm of foreign language through the funny activities A：尊敬的领导，亲爱的同学们，Honorable leaders and dear students

B：让梦想的羽翼更丰满----上海应用技术学院第七届外语节开幕式暨外语卡拉OK大赛

Dream takes wings flying higher----2010 The Seventh Foreign Language Festival Opening Ceremony of SIT(Foreign Language Karaoke contest)

AB：到此结束，谢谢大家的光临！

End now!Thank you for your attending.

第二篇：外语节书画展

外语节书画展

一、活动主旨

为了进一步丰富校园文化活动，增强艺术魅力。提高我系学生的学习兴趣。提高同学们的艺术才华。增进中外文化艺术交流。为了营造浓厚的校园文化气氛，继续和弘扬传统文化艺术，学习和展现外国艺术，提高当代大学生的审美情趣与艺术修养，增进书画爱好者之间的艺术交流，展示出艺术的魅力。

二、活动意义

弘扬中华书画文化，让同学们领略书画文化的魅力，让同学们更加了解外国文字艺术的美。推进广大同学对艺术的追求。鼓舞同学们发挥自身潜力。让同学们更加了解外国文字艺术的美

本活动紧密围绕‘宣传美的艺术，丰富校园生活，陶冶良好的情操’的宗旨，通过书画作品展的活动形式，繁荣校园文化，提高学生的综合素质，丰富学生的精神文化生活，最终达到为创建和谐校园的目的。

进一步培养同学们爱校园、爱文化艺术的情感。增强学校的凝聚力、向心力和感召力。推进学校文化艺术的发展。

通过此次书画展，提高同学们对艺术的了解。提高书法绘画的能力和鉴赏能力。

三、活动主题

宣传艺术魅力，丰富校园生活

四、举办单位

长春工业大学外语系宣传部

五、活动时间

2011年11月21号---------2011年11月25号

六、活动程序

1、作品征集

2、作品评优

3、作品展示

七、活动形式

展览

八、展览场所

教五荣誉室

九、作品类型

毛笔书法、绘画、外语的艺术书写、涂鸦

十、活动宣传

外语系宣传部以张贴海报的形式进行宣传。欢迎各位同学的积极参加。

长春工业大学外语系宣传部2011年11月13日

第三篇：外语节协议书

外语节协议书

甲方：湘南学院out look 协会

乙方:俏妞日化化妆品店

外语节活动

承办单位：out look 协会、语泉协会、团体部

活动对象：全院同学

活动时间：2011年12月11日下午3点到5点

活动地点：湘南学院校训广场

活动形式：外语节包括德语、日语、韩语、法语、英语，out look主要负责英语和德语。届时会有外教当主持人，进行中西方文化的交流，并且会有外教与同学们玩游戏，进行有奖竞猜活动（而这部分，也是我们为您做宣传的重要部分）

宣传形式

甲方与乙方合作，甲方为乙方做宣传，乙方提供甲方一定的活动奖品，宣传形式如下:

1、甲方为乙方发放宣传单，并且保证宣传单发放到每个同学的手中

2、甲方为乙方张拉横幅，保证宣传力度（但横幅归乙方交予甲方），乙方也可要求甲方将横幅拉在具体哪个位置

3、甲方通过活动前期的宣传海报，将乙方以及乙方的商品优惠标于海报，在院内的几个点张贴，达到更广的宣传力度

4、甲方将会在活动的期间进行有奖竞猜，比如：俏妞日化的地址在哪里、主打化妆品有哪些等等，增强同学们对乙方的印象 最后，out look 协会诚挚的邀请俏妞日化能在12月11号参加活动，我们也随时接受你们的监督，并且期待我们下次的合作！甲方：

乙方：

湘南学院out look 协会

第四篇：外语节开幕式新闻

传承,创新

——天津理工大学第十届外语文化节隆重开幕

天津理工大学第十届外语文化节于10月13日12点在综合楼前隆重开幕。出席本次开幕式的领导有校学工部部长、学生处处长张继东老师，校团委书记赵亮老师，国际教育学院副院长高永革老师，外国语学院院长丁素萍老师，外国语学院党总支书记张兵老师，副书记

石娟，副院长徐建中老师、刘晓荣老师，以及各兄弟院校的老师和同学们。

开幕式上，赵亮书记致辞对历届外语文化节的肯定以及对本届外语文化节的支持与厚望。丁素萍院长的讲话肯定了外语节十年的的发展以及外院在这十年中的成长，宣布第十届外语文化节开幕。

本届外语文化节传承以往的经典，并推陈出新，首次引入主宾国理念。主宾国波兰的留学生们为大家带来的传统波兰舞蹈成为开幕式的一大亮点。外国语学院09级，10级共十六个班级为我们带来的文化展示是本届外语节开幕式的重要环节。各班将展板与展示相结合，展现传统异国风情。同学们从各国的服装，饮食到历史文明向我们展示了多元素，多层次的世界各国。

本届以“传承，创新”为主题的外语节历时两个月，期间有“波兰文化之旅”、外文歌手大赛、英语俚语大赛、外文配音大赛等比赛。各项比赛期待大家的参与，与我们一起体验语言魅力，感受万国风情。

第五篇：外语节英文演讲稿

Thesis: Tradition in modern times

● 胡大炜

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen!

My name is David.I’m very glad to join you with the discussion of “tradition in modern times and my topic is “Why don’t we make modern and tradition friends”.I went to Britain on the school exchange program last summer.Till now I can still remember the feeling I got when we landed back on China.There was something twisting my heart, making me extremely uncomfortable.Later I found out it was the grim and cold modern buildings along the way back to school.Tall as they were, they looked expressionless.Shining as they were, they looked so unreal.However, when I was walking down the streets of London or Liverpool, what I saw was the ancient buildings gracefully stretching themselves out in front of me, yet leaving no sign of conflicting with the roadsters that roared down the street.On recollecting the marvelous scene, it occurs to me that modern and tradition aren’t born to be enemies.Then I can’t stop wondering why they are so incompatible in China.Old buildings are cruelly replaced by skyscrapers;peking opera’s popularity is never to beat that of the casually made idol TV series.In a word, new things can’t wait to displace the old.It’s wired, isn’t it? Modernization should not be simple replacement but development after all.I didn’t get the answer that could orientate me out of my confusion until I went to Australia this winter.As the highlighted part of the tour, we went to see the traditional performance of the aborigines.During the show, one of the aborigines slightly injured his knee due to the exceedingly passionate primitive dance, forcing him to totter down from the stage when the show was over.What was shocking was that no one in the audience seemed to have been aware of this.They applauded.They cheered.Yet they still left their seats without even a glance at him.If any, the emotion in their eyes was like watching the monkeys in the zoo.I couldn’t feel more sympathetic to him and when passing him I whispered: ”are your knees ok?” Surprisingly, he seemed too thrilled to speak anything.He only uttered: “wha??ah!......ya……” with bubbling laughter in the end of the series of simple words.“Take care” I said to him.He immediately replied “Yeah!”, clapping me on the back.I felt warmth.Yet I also felt a chill.The answer then jumped out itself: like the pitiless tourists, we labeled ourselves as modern citizens.Meanwhile we took up the mask of arrogance which prevented us from taking a good look at tradition.That gave no chance of interaction between tradition and modern, thereby making them the seemingly incompatible enemies.Such attitude is horribly dangerous.With the label “modern”, we are always trying to put us in the highest point of the mountain of history.Yet we have forgotten that without the stones of tradition under our foot, we may easily fall down from it.The hazardous consequences have actually been shown by Charlie Chaplin in his famous silent film Modern Times.It vividly describes how the factory workers become(时态？)the salves of the crazy modern machines and how the humanity is lamentably trampled in the process.The ignorance of tradition will just lead us to nihility like the modern buildings that severely twisted my heart.So why don’t we modern citizens take off the unreasonable sense of superiority and try to make friends with tradition?

Modern and tradition can actually be such a pair of close friends that modern designers can get their cues from the traditional Chinese cheongsam.Modern and tradition can actually be such a pair of close friends that modern musicians are able to use modern technology to give an excellent performance of the classic music of Bach.Modern and tradition can actually be such a pair of close friends that even foreign students in the modern world are eager to discover the practical value of Confucianism.Modern and tradition can actually be such a pair of close friends that the spirit of Tao, or Taoism, is still attracting our dear chemistry teacher Mr.Hu Lieyang and is well combined with his ways of teaching.Don’t hesitate to listen to what tradition is saying.You will find it more agreeable than you ever expected.● 金夏伟

Hi everyone!It’s funny that I’m gonna say something about this topic cos I’m sorta a traditional guy in this modern era.In fact, my worldview and my way of thinking are pretty modern, or even kinda ultramodern.To me, many traditional notions suck, such as those about sex and etiquette.But still I often wish I could live in the old days cos I prefer the past lifestyle.It’s more romantic.I’d like to talk about something you’ve probably read in the newspaper.A couple of weeks ago, a painting by the Norwegian modernist Edvard Munch was sold for nearly 120 million dollars.I guess many have experienced that when seeing paintings by modern artists, we know they’re big names like picasso or Dali, but we would feel their works are not beautiful, or even sometimes we dunno what they painted at all.Maybe many have asked, why are they drawing like this? Are they crazy? personally, I have a deep interest in art so I’ve read a lot about it.Based on my knowledge, not all the modern artists are playing a joke on us.Some of them are truly mad.It seems we’re embracing the modern art and all things tagged as modern for modern’s sake, but not necessarily modern is better than traditional.In fact, our nation is now facing a big conflict between traditional culture and modern Western culture, which is also true in a lot of Eastern countries with a long history.I’ll talk about a Turkish writer named Orhan pamuk.He was born and lived most of his life in Istanbul, Turkey, a city and a country facing even bigger challenge than us.Let’s see this challenge through pamuk’s books.For example, My Name Is Red is about the conflict between painters with two different styles, which represent tradition and modernity respectively.In another book named Istanbul, pamuk laments over the past times and old buildings that no longer exist.I’m sorry the same thing is also happening around us.personally, I’m interested in design and architecture.I really enjoy traveling a lot, and though I haven’t been to many places, I’ve seen pictures of many cities and buildings there.I’ve noticed something interesting but very problematic – those most traditional countries including China are trying to replace time-honored architectures with modern ones.In contrast, Europe, the place where contemporary architecture originated, is holding fast to its traditional buildings and other historical and cultural relics.This makes me sad.In our surroundings, how many buildings are there still containing the memory of one or several generations? And how many are there having witnessed the rise and fall of this city and the love and hate of people on this land? We are like children holding a pile of antiques, but anxious when seeing others playing electric toys, so we’re casting our antiques aside.I’m sad.I doubt when I wanna write my own Istanbul or prague, is there still a bridge or a train station I could recall sweetly?

But whenever I think of this, my sorrow never lasts long cos it always reminds me of an advertisement, in which the mother says “traditional Chinese medicine is good” and then the wife says “western medicine makes a quick fix.” In the ad the final solution is to combine both.This seems reasonable in settling conflict between tradition and modernity.Yet, I wish some tradition could remain intact cos to me and everybody who loves Western culture, we would feel proud if we can not only appreciate Western culture, but also have our own culture and tradition appreciated by others.And also, our next generations could know the history of the people here.So, let’s start saving and keeping our tradition in modern times.THANK YOU ALL!

● 康君慧

The night before I was heading for school, I was going through my old garments, when a suddenly necklace dropped out of my closet.It looked peculiar yet inexpensive, with some curiously shaped stones on it, evoking memories of my first stepping on western China—Tibet.On arriving in Tibet, I found the place far more advanced than I once imagined.Tibet used to be famous for its unique traditions.Local residents grazed to earn a living, enjoyed a feast of charqui and milk, worshiped at the shrine, and hospitably presented a hada to the guests.However, after several years of Western Development, tourism there has boomed and it turned the residents’ life upside down.Covering the living expense becomes the priority in what the locals demand.Not long after that, they discovered that their sacred traditions have provided them with an easy access to make a living.The more frequent exposure to the luxury lifestyle on the east coast there was, the stronger the desire for a higher living standard grew.This can partly explain why I found Tibet full of retailers instead of a mysterious and sacred place.Locals were almost everywhere around you, making a living by squeezing money out of tourists.practically everything related to Tibetan culture from accessories to prayer wheels are sold in the fairs.I can hardly see the appealing traditions I was expected but a picture of a dull metropolitan.This also happened in many cases, varying from the development of Yellow Emperor’s birthplace to the changes of where Cao Xueqin’s hometown.Our generation has been very fortunate to witness the historic transformation of China that had made so many changes in the past several years.Indeed, thanks to the new technology, we are reaching a new era when the old traditions and the modern cultures rise and fall together.We saw that many of our traditions embracing the modern times and vise versa But then sometimes I’m thinking, is this integration really helpful to the traditions that has thousands of years’ history?

Take my experience in Tibet as an example, from the perspective of the locals, the crudely-made accessories are the least expected to be successful in the business called tourism, yet the tradition behind the accessories brings them through.In modern times, under the pressure of covering expense, traditions are no longer their deeply buried beliefs but an essential step taken to raise the price of the accessories.This contributes to the loss in persistence in tradition and the increase in greediness.When self-interests overcome the persistence, there is no doubt that the tradition will die out.This reminds me of a saying, the old soldiers never die, they just fade away.So as the tradition.Also, as a visitor, unlike before I traveled to Tibet, when I was so obsessed with the attractive culture and traditions, my passion was nowhere to be found as the necklace I bought was replaced by other things of higher quality.That’s because the new value of the modern society has secretly changed my attitudes towards tradition.I paid much more attention to the necklace itself than to the traditional elements it possessed.This is pretty common among the tourists nowadays.We overlook the most significant task---understanding the tradition, on the opposite, we simply define travel as a combination of watching, shopping and eating.As time goes by, we will be left with nothing but a great pile of useless souvenirs.It may be harder to practice than to speak.But I will keep the true value of the necklace deeply in my mind.The world may not be the best place, but with the spirit we share, we won’t be lost wherever we go.● 李凯莅

Distinguished guests and honorable judges:

Good afternoon.I’m so honored to deliver my speech on the topic “tradition in modern times” here, and I would like to start with sharing my personal feelings with all of you.Last year’s Qingming Festival I went to visit my grandparents in a country village.My grandma and my aunt made some Qingming dumplings for every member of the family.We sat around the table, enjoying the home-made delicacy in the clear spring.Suddenly I felt so touched by the scene.As I’ve been used to the noisy and bustling city, hardly did I recall my carefree childhood there.Grandpa was taking care of the vegetables and Grandma was cooking.I was playing with the small insects or chasing the chickens.So peaceful and restful.It’s a traditional lifestyle which, almost forgotten by modern city residents, but somehow still exists in our deepest memories.Tradition may come out in various patterns such as festivals or customs, the core of it, however, is a sense of belonging that constantly reminds us of whom we are and where we come from.Living in the multicultural world, we are all rich in material.Due to the challenges of modernization, the decline of tradition is, to some degree, inevitable.Modern civilization has equipped us with critical and logical thinking and a wide knowledge of science, and has certainly improved our living standard.But, I have to say, at the same time it tends to make everyone the same, deprive of us some unique characters that distinguish us from anyone else, and weaken our identification as part of a united nation.That’s just how exactly tradition works with people.Just imagine, my dear friends, how do we feel when we see our birthplace – the beautiful country – being replaced by factories? Do we often feel at a loss when we try to put aside the digital devices and stay away from the Internet?

Only then do we realize the power of tradition and the essential role it plays.It makes us rich in spirit.And no matter how our lifestyle changes, how the technology advances, the core of tradition won’t be easily reshaped.It’s the root.It’s the belongingness.It’s not about the way we solve problems, but the way we see ourselves and reflect on our lives.Tradition in modern times serves as a reminder.It will never fade as we hear the familiar accent of our town, or recognize the same yellow faces and black eyes as ours, wherever we are.Therefore, we should take pride in our identity as Chinese, because we’ve inherited many traditional virtues from our ancestors.We are diligent and modest.We respect the old and care for the young.We are always ready to help others.What’s more, we share the same dream with great thinkers along the history – to create a harmonious society.Now it’s our duty to carry forward and further develop them, and pass them down.Let the tradition of China unite us as a whole, and let us show the value of the tradition of in today’s modern world.That’s all of my speech.Thank you very much for listening to me.● 李恕

From time to time, I receive postcards from places I’ve never heard of.They are from the most legendary figure of all my friends.He’s from Spain but ever since his graduation from college, he’s always been traveling.He’s like the little boy in The Alchemist, traveling to a country, stopping a while to make some money in order to start the next journey.When I asked him what attracted him to do all this, his answer was – the people.The people are always the most beautiful.They are the greatest treasure of any country, he said.Indeed, as I interpret it, people are the inheritors and embodiment of a country’s age-old tradition and carriers of all that tradition to modern times.Different and developed as the world may be, tradition has never been far away from us.It’s around and inside ourselves.Some might wonder – why not discuss the tradition of spring festival, of all sorts of Chinese handicrafts and performing arts, etc.? They are the traditions endangered by modernization.Well, surely that’s true.On TV and in newspapers, we often hear about campaigns aimed at saving one or another tradition.However, just as Tagore wrote in his short poem, happiness and the beautiful scenery always seem to be on the other side of the river;we’re always attaching merits and happiness to the other side of life we do not possess.Those handicrafts and performing arts are disappearing exactly because people who make those handicrafts long for a modern life and have abandoned them while we living a modern life are desperately trying to save what they have abandoned.We tend to feel in the way that what we have lost or are currently losing is more important than what we have, but sometimes we do fail to question and recognize why and for what we are saving them.Are we keeping the traditions alive solely because we want them to continue existing? Or are we saving them in order that we could boast about our varied traditions and sell them as souvenirs or tourist attractions? If the answer is yes, if we are doing this merely for those purposes, it would be such a boring and silly thing to do.What’s truly worth preserving is the value behind them – hard work, appreciation for beauty, strong family attachment, simple wisdom – those are the real traditions we should save and it’s the loss of those qualities that will lead to the extinction of the traditional art, crafts and way of doing things.The tradition resides not on any specific item, but it resides in our heart, as the principles we hold and the values we inherit from our ancestors and from their thousands of years of learning about life.That is why tradition and modernization do not always stand on the opposite.That is why the advent of modern times does not necessarily mean the wipeout of all traditions and that is also why the greatest tradition is carried on by everyone and displayed in every day we live, including our current lifestyle of tests, which probably remains as the most vigorous Chinese tradition in modern times.Last year, when faced with the choice of getting to college without the college entrance exam, many of us resisted the temptation, determined to pursue our dream with an entire year of unremitting efforts.This is our tradition of hard work and perseverance.But even with loads of homework, one or two tests every single day and tremendous pressure, we haven’t become slaves to the test grades.We still argue against the correct answer given and we still make fun of the most serious tests.This is our tradition of independence, integrity and optimism.Ladies and gentlemen, every choice we make, everything we do can be a reflection of the tradition deeply rooted in our heart.Every person is the living tradition of the country’s long history.Or in my friend’s words, the people are always the most beautiful.They are the greatest treasure of any country.As long as we keep practicing the values passed down from generations ago, our tradition won’t possibly die out in modern times.Our tradition is here, in our heart.It’s the best place for it.Keep it safe and pass it on.● 魏洪浩

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,It’s my great honor to be in company of you on this special occasion just after the cultural festival of which the theme was ‘our land and our people’.Yes, tradition is important.It’s the mainstream nowadays that our tradition should be preserved.When it comes to reason, pure and simple, we are Chinese, the nation distinguished from all other human brothers and sisters due to our marvelous civilization and long-lasting history.The tradition, which reflects Chinese civilization and culture from all perspectives, has been breeding this nation like Mother River for the last 5000 years.It’s hard to imagine, without tradition, the nation could survive and even thrive after countless pain and suffer, dust and tear, and still take pride in the identity as the descendents of dragon.The tradition makes our nation different.However, situation changes.Given the harsh impact of globalization, we are amazed to find that while we embrace the stylish western culture, the destiny of tradition changes.The Chinese characters were simplified and modified;the traditional costumes rarely show off their charm.Teenagers might be familiar with the origin of Christmas, yet take traditional festivals granted only as public holidays.Our tradition is diminishing in modern times by external culture aggression.That’s a shame.Forgetting our tradition means betray.If we don’t response bravely and promptly, it would not be strange that all typical and authentic Chinese die out, but Chinese with no cultural identity remain.The fate of tradition will be the duplicate of the nation itself.Such tragedy should be avoidable.In history, this nation has been under threat of invasion, but it survives.Our land could be conquered and stolen, our mind might be monitored and transformed, our people were enslaved under the regime of dictatorship, but the tradition remained, as the source of self-recognition, supporting the nation’s confidence and maintaining the society.It reminds me of Chopin and his masterpieces renowned as ‘cannon in the flower’.Under the dictatorship of Nazi, those dissents and patriots who listened to his work knew if the spirit of a nation survives, so will the nation itself.That’s the same as the tradition.Therefore, the tradition should be recognized again in our everyday life and re-gain its irreplaceable position in modern times.Moreover, tradition could do more.In our times, what we are enjoying is the tremendous material prosperity, thanks to the blooming economics in recent decades.We should be satisfied with convenient traffic, modern accommodation, comfort life and diversified entertainment, yet we are not.Indeed.We are struggling to survive in this competitive world, exhaust ourselves in daily hectic life and pain for greed and intolerance.The previous moral standards collapse, but the new is far off being erected.It’s astonishing and pathetic to admit that we are suffering a spiritual crisis, the biggest challenge in phase, when the tradition dwindles.Then let the tradition do its job, to alleviate social agony and solve the issues.Take the tradition of drinking tea for instance.A cup of tea will just calm nervous down and lessen pressure in hustling city.Tasting tea is also the process for concentration and the stimulation helps to clear the messy mind, relax mentally in an artistic way.The pure and fresh taste while traveling down the throat, will clean the spirit contaminated by greed and intolerance, compensate for the side-effects of modern life.All these represent the culture and conventional wisdom, while the tradition itself is tangible.So adorable and feasible it is to cultivate our mind with tradition in this impetuous world.Therefore, when the tradition is labeled dwindling, I would say, its spring time would come soon.If we inherit the tradition and modify it for the tendency of times, tradition in modern times, not only will survive, but flourish and sparkle the flame of development.● 谢张天

Honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen, my fellow classmates and my dearest friends:

I’m so grateful today，for this puts an end to the sleepless nights I had，worrying about my speech.The worry was increased when I learned this news.According to previous censuses, China’s sex ratio has been seriously unbalanced since 1980s due to the tradition of preferring sons.It is estimated that by 2020, China will have 30 million more men than women of marriageable age, an equal number of half the population of the U.K.What’s worse, some men will break the traditional faith, seeking other women, and of course there are lesbians and celibates.Have a sense of crisis, boys!

So you see, a departure from tradition is more harmful than an out-of-date one.But how should we comprehend tradition in modern times?

Tradition holds up a nation.The Jews are miserable.They were deprived of land, lives and liberty.They drifted around for over two thousand years, but their culture was never assimilated;their spirit was never subdued;their tradition was never forgotten.Teachers and scholars were particularly honored for they transmitted Jewish knowledge and wisdom to the youth.A line in psalm, the Bible, goes like this:’ if I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill, may my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth…’ That’s why so many shining stars in our history are Jewish, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, pablo picasso, Franz Kafka, Steven Spielberg and Jesus Christ, to name a few.As Winston Churchill put it:’ A love for tradition never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.’

Tradition sophisticates a society.It is transmitted from generation to generation.At all times, it is in the process of accumulating wisdom and experience of our ancestors.It is the product of history and group memory, a product that serves as a signpost when we are lost;gives us a warning when we are about to drift off course;and reminds us of the lessons before history repeats itself.In a word, ’traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening’.However, China has a bad tradition that has overshadowed many good traditions.That is: Officials rewrite history.They covered a great many customs, thoughts, deeds and beliefs that are crucial to our history.How many of us are really familiar with our motherland in the latest one hundred years? History can be covered, but memory is immortal.Seek historical truths.Seek group memory.As long as the memory is alive, tradition will never die.Tradition awaits individuals.A man is to a society what a cell is to a body, so is the relation between individual tradition and the ‘big’ tradition.A body has a variety of cells, renewing all the time.By that analogy, tradition is personalized rather than unitized, changeable rather than stable.Everyone has his own small traditions.Establishing them means renewing and developing the ‘big’ ones.Therefore, all of us have the power to start an ideal tradition through individual effort.What we say or do today might not be recorded or remembered, but it will be incorporated into the big tradition in the future.We are in a transitional period right now, exciting and exhilarating, sometimes disappointing and discouraging, but always challenging.It is easy for us to forget: Who are we? Where are we from? And where are we going? So, let's preserve national tradition, we won’t lose our way;let's seek social tradition, we will find glorious yet hidden paths;let's establish our own tradition, we, as the new generation of China, will create a better society, a better tradition and a new civilization!

Thank you all!Thank you!

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The world is one with conflicts.For centuries humans have been so concerned about the conflicts between tradition and modernity that we failed to realize that tradition itself is a paradox in modern times.We have long been told the importance of preserving the traditions.But the world has undergone so enormous a change that some ancient traditions, even equally valuable, seem to contradict each other in modern times.Today Chinese students are almost obsessed with studying abroad.The trend is somehow in accordance with the time-honored conviction that a decent education is the key to a decent life.But think about the much-quoted saying by Confucius, “Don't stray far from home when your parents are alive”.Youngsters' leaving home may seem selfish and unfilial.Another characteristic example concerns the traditional festival.Tradition holds that we burn paper money to commemorate the dead in Qingming Festival, which continues to this day as a demonstration of respect for the ancestors.However, this unenvironmental-friendly way of worship results in a great amount of air pollution, which actually violates our forefathers' belief to live harmoniously with our mother nature.The dilemma is this: following one tradition can simultaneously be breaking another.Accordingly, we are now and then confronted with the hard choice of which traditions to hand down and thus tradition appears to be somewhat burdensome.But with just a little more consideration, we may surprisingly realize that what bothered us are actually choices nowhere near necessary.preserving traditions is never the matter of which one to follow, but how to capture the very essence of them so as to adapt them to the modern society.The key to resolving the paradox in tradition lies in modernity.There is an unnoticed but excellent example to illustrate my point.With summer coming round, many girls around me are thinking about putting their earrings on.This is what I am going to talk about: ear-piercing.Seemingly trendy and fashionable, ear-piercing actually has a history of more than 3000 years in china.Throughout its history, the painful practice was always dogged by controversy.Some perceived it as a symbol of beauty, while others were strongly opposed to it, believing human body was endowed by parents and thereby damaging it could be disrespect for life and for parents.Fortunately, modern technology has made piercing safer, easier and almost painless, without any physical harm done.It is the modern wisdom that allowed us to both share the idea to pursue beauty with the ancient Chinese and hold on to the long-established belief to value human body.This is exactly how different traditions harmonize in modern times.What we need is creative solution rather than blind imitation, rational disputation rather than pointless quarrel, an eye for beauty rather than a sharp tongue for criticism.Also, the modern world has become more tolerant to embrace diversity than the traditional one.You may prefer to keep your ears unpierced, and you can enjoy showing off the twelve earrings you are wearing as well.You may continue sending “money” to those in heaven, and you can simply put a bouquet of chrysanthemums in front of the grave.You may have already excitedly received offers from your dream universities abroad, and you can also be stubborn enough to stay, striking for only one single exam, just like all the students in ancient china, just like us.There is surely more to tradition than ancient customs and believes.The real meaning of tradition in modern times is to look back to history and truly understand what we were and why we are here.Our ancestors have passed down the wisdom to appreciate the world, and modern people should wiser to appreciate the paradox in it.And always remember this: what we do about tradition will finally become part of modernity;the modernity today is to become the tradition tomorrow.