Country for PR: China
Contributor: Xinhua News Agency
Monday, September 05 2022 - 17:31
AsiaNet
"Great Wall of Poetry" extends children's talents beyond mountains
SHANGHAI, Sept. 5, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

For thousands of years, the Great Wall has guarded the Chinese territory and 
the homeland of the Chinese people. On September 3, in a rolling, lush alpine 
grassland, a string of moving poems composed by little poets living in the 
mountainous areas made a magnificent "Great Wall of Poetry", which helps 
protect the spiritual homeland of these children as well as the common 
spiritual world for everyone.

This is a special public welfare program called "The Great Wall of Poetry -- 
Let the Undiscovered Literary Talents of Children in the Mountainous areas 
Shine" launched by this year's Poetry POS campaign launched by China UnionPay, 
the country's top bank card organization. Via livestreaming, the program seeks 
to display the talents of children in the mountainous areas to the world.

Two representatives of the little poets came to the event site and recited 
their poems in a grassland surrounded by mountains in Zherong County, Ningde 
City of southeast China's Fujian Province. Their voices echoed in the 
mountains, leaving the poetic feel flow along the "Great Wall of Poetry". There 
were also some local intangible heritage performances, which turned this public 
welfare livestreaming into a cultural feast. In the online livestreaming 
platform of Xinhua News Agency's English app, more than 10 million viewers 
shared this poetic spectacle.

It is worth mentioning that the warm-up of this event has also attracted the 
attention and support of many famous people at home and abroad. Jake Pinnick, 
an American who has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years, 
Robert Adolf, a German who loves Chinese cuisine, Cai Zi, a well-known host, 
Xiaolin, a painter, and Pan Jiangxue, a pioneer in poverty alleviation, read 
these children's poems earnestly in recognition and support of this special 
public welfare program.

At the event, people got a POS receipt printed with poems by donating one yuan 
at the UnionPay Poetry POS, and all proceeds will be donated to the China Soong 
Ching Ling Foundation.

China UnionPay Poetry POS campaign was officially launched in July 2019. Over 
the past four years, the donations raised have been used in Anhui, Henan, 
Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan and other regions, helping nearly 5,000 children 
enjoy artistic literacy lessons.

Source: China UnionPay

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   Caption: On September 3, in a rolling, lush alpine grassland, a string of 
moving poems composed by little poets living in the mountainous areas made a 
magnificent "Great Wall of Poetry".