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“建设上海”Building Shanghai|| Exploration of Religious Culture

发布者：上海宏润博源 2020-12-21 10:51:18

“建设上海”：探索宗教文化

Building Shanghai: Exploration of Religious Culture in Shanghai

11月16-20日，上海宏润博源学校开展了“建设上海”探究式学习活动；同学们走出校园，走进上海这座迷人的大都市，根据自己的兴趣爱好，了解这座城市的过去和现在，并畅想它的未来。将真实的世界作为学习的“书本”, 收获不一样的知识与技能，并获得启发。

During Nov.16-20th, Shanghai Hongrun Boyuan School launched its Building Shanghai inquiry-learning projects, during which the students, based on their personal interest, got out of the traditional classrooms, walked into this fascinating city to learn its past and present and imagine its future. Take the real world as the book to learn and to be inspired.

宗教文化项目组研究的是宗教文化在上海的影响，目的是为了减少宗教歧视，了解总结宗教文化在历史发展中的重要占位，同时如何影响人们的思想、艺术创造以及生活方式。最终，结合我们的生活经验和一周的资料搜索，设计前往宗教博物馆。由于宗教众多，短短一周的时间内无法全都覆盖到，项目组挑选了世界三大教——天主教，伊斯兰教，和佛教，将同学们平分为三个小组，分别进行研究。

By studying the influence of religious culture in Shanghai, our project group aimed to reduce religious discrimination, understand, and generalize the important role that religious culture played in historical development, as well as how religions had influenced people’s thoughts, artistic creation and their lifestyles. Finally, we planned to visit a religious museum to test our life experience and the data we had searched for the week. As it was impossible for us to cover so many religions in such a short week, our group focused on the world's three major religions —— Catholicism, Islam, and Buddhism, and divided the students into three groups.

周一的主要任务是了解三大宗教、天主教堂和西林禅寺的基本背景。首先我们先是了解三大宗教产生在什么时候、从哪来，神，建筑，节日以及重要的代表特征。下午我们开始寻找两大宗教的基本资料并且做出相同点和不同点的对比。在整个过程中，所有人都沉浸在神圣的宗教礼敬中。

Our main job for Monday was to acquire some background information of the three major religions, the Catholic Church and the Xilin Temple. First, we learned when and where the 3 major religions came into existence, their gods, architecture, festivals and important features. On that afternoon, we set about searching for basic information about the two major religious and compare their similarities and differences. Throughout the afternoon, everyone was absorbed in sacred religious rites.

周二的主要任务是做一个“博物馆”的初稿设计。首先三个组先是针对博物馆的基本构造与外观展开了激烈的讨论，最终使用了佛教组提出的设计方案：三个不同宗教的博物馆合成一个大的展馆，在外观美的要求下同时兼顾三座展馆的独立性与联通性，方便游客在三座展馆中辗转。随后各组分别开始了紧张的楼层设计。由于周三要出去参观庙宇和教堂，留给我们的时间并不充裕。万幸，周二下课时所有组别都超额完成了老师预设的任务，大家的努力都出了成绩。

Our main task for Tuesday was to design the first draft of a religious “museum”. First, 3 groups of students held a heated discussion on the basic structure and appearance of the museum, and finally agreed on the plan designed by the Buddhism group: To combine museums representing 3 different religions to form a big exhibition hall; To take 3 elements into consideration, i.e. beautiful appearance, independence, and inter-connectivity of the 3 pavilions so that visitors could move from one to another. Later, all groups were engaged in designing the floors. As we planned to go out and visit temples and churches, we didn’t have plenty of time left for us. Fortunately, by the end of class on Tuesday, we had over-fulfilled the assignments the teachers gave us, and everyone’s effort paid off.

我们先前往佘山天主大教堂。由于内部修缮的原因，佘山天主大教堂未向外开放，但仅仅在外面观望那雄伟的造型与精致的琉璃，就已经足以想象到教堂内部的壮观。

The first place we visited was the Catholic church located on the Sheshan mountain. Since its interior was under maintenance, the church wasn’t open to public at that time. However, we could easily imagine its spectacular interior by just looking at its magnificent shape and its fine glaze from the outside.

离开佘山天主大教堂，到达探索的第二站——西林禅寺。这是一座十分古老的庙宇，经历多次修缮，里面的斋堂远近闻名。到达那里时恰逢午饭时间，于是老师带着我们体验了斋饭。菜肴十分精致，豆腐，蘑菇等素食做成荤菜的样子，好看又好吃。饱餐一顿后在寺庙里烧香拜佛，参观一番。从西林禅寺的入口进入，最先映入眼帘的是宏伟的主殿。殿内设计低调而庄严，中心的佛像高高耸立。在主殿的后半部分是四大天王的佛像。分列两边，走在中间，我感觉到了一种威严，不由自主地静下心来慢慢感受着神的熏陶。在主殿的后方是一个像博物馆的小建筑，里面记载着贡品，比如诗经，珠宝等等。这个寺里还有一个鱼塘。里面有着各色锦鲤。同学们听说摸黄色的锦鲤可以学业有成，纷纷在池塘边寻找黄色锦鲤；也有一些同学希望未来有个好姻缘，寻找红色锦鲤；也有同学为了自己的心愿，十指相扣，闭眼许下自己对未来的希望，并将硬币扔入池中。

We left the Catholic church for our second stop on our exploratory trip--- Xilin Temple. As a very old temple, it had been renovated many times, and it was known far and wide for its interior abstinence hall. It happened to be lunchtime when we arrived there, so led by our teachers, we ate vegetarian food. Delicately cooked, vegetarian foods such as tofu and mushrooms looked good and tasted as if they were meat. After having a full meal, we burned incense, worshiped Buddhas and took a tour around the temple. On entering through the gate of the temple, we saw the grand main hall at first sight. The layout of the inside was plain yet solemn, with the Buddha statue standing high in the centre. In the rear part of the main hall and on both sides stood four heavenly kings. Walking in the middle, I could feel the majesty, and could not help but calm down to slowly feel the edification of God. Behind the main hall, there was a small building like a museum with tributes inside, such as the Book of Songs, jewellery etc. In the temple, there was also a fish pond with many colorful koi fish in it. Having heard that if someone touches a yellow koi fish, he or she will be blessed with academic success, some students gathered around the pond to look for the yellow fish. Hoping for a happy marriage in the future; others were trying to look for red koi fish. Still others made wishes for their own future with their eyes closed and finger clasped, and then tossed some coins into the pond.

周四的时光十分轻松，由于之前超额完成了任务，剩下的任务相对来说压力不大。大家一边回味昨天的壮观与欢乐，一边将自己组的博物馆终稿制作了出来。在这个过程中，还有一些小“比赛”。比如有一组的同学说他们博物馆的最高一楼有很多的小吃店，可供来观看的游客享用。另一组的同学不甘示弱，说到他们有一个“自省室”，可以让体验的游客静下心来回想自己的过往以及冷静思考未来的事情。

We had a relaxing day on Thursday. As we had finished our assignments in advance, what was left for us was not so overwhelming. While recalling yesterday’s brilliance and happiness, each group finished writing their own final report on the visit to the museum. During that time, there were some small competitions among the groups. For example, one group said that they planned to open a lot of snack bars on the top floor of their museum so that visitors could enjoy food there. Another group hated to show white feather by setting up an “introspection room” where tourists could calm down to reflect on their own past and think about their future.

周五下午是我们组汇报演讲。演讲十分精彩，给同学们带来了快乐的同时，让大家了解了项目的主要目的以及世界三大宗教。

Our project group was supposed to report and give a speech to the whole school. We made a wonderful speech, not only bringing happiness to the audience but also making them understand the main purposes of our project and the world’s 3 major religions.

这次活动对我影响颇深，不仅学习到了许多新奇的宗教知识，锻炼了英语演讲能力，还锻炼了我们发散性的思维，收获满满。

This PBL program had a profound influence on me. I benefited a lot from it. Not only did I acquire lots of knowledge on religions, improve my skills in English speaking, but also I improved my thinking skills.