Cotton Used To Be The City Flower Of Shanghai? In This History Class Of Donghua University, Applause And Laughter Continued

Cotton was once the city flower of Shanghai. Do you know this "cold knowledge"? Yesterday, a history course entitled "the origin of the Communist Party of China and the textile workers' movement in Shanghai" was held in Donghua University, which made students listen with great interest, which caused bursts of laughter and applause from time to time. This is an interesting lesson for freshmen to study history.

The lecturer is Bai Huashan, member of the "four history" theme propaganda group of Donghua University, associate professor of Marxism college, and teacher of outline of modern Chinese history. He told the freshmen vividly and simply about the development of Shanghai's textile industry and the early textile workers' movement. Since the establishment of China's first silk reeling factory in Shanghai in 1861, Shanghai workers have carried out various movements for their own interests, but these movements are mostly scattered and spontaneous. Xiaoshadu workers' club in West Shanghai (near Xikang Road) is the earliest workers' club in China. It led the earliest textile workers' movement in Shanghai and started the struggle against imperialism and feudalism. Bai Huashan said, "the textile workers' movement was the most popular in modern Shanghai, which was closely related to the Communist Party's work of educating and uniting workers through workers' night schools and workers' clubs. The leadership of the Communist Party of China has injected new vitality into China's workers' movement, and has also made a great contribution to the history of Shanghai's textile workers' movement. "

As a front-line teacher who has been engaged in the teaching and research of CPC history and Shanghai history for a long time, Bai Huashan and his colleagues have been thinking about how to combine the characteristics of the school and the characteristics of Ideological and political courses to tap the red educational resources around them, so as to bring students a different history lesson. As a result, the Shanghai textile workers movement came into his vision. The textile industry is affectionately known as the "mother industry" in the process of industrialization in China and "mother industry" in Shanghai. As the first textile university in New China, Donghua University has cultivated a large number of excellent textile talents, and has made great contributions to the development of China's textile industry and Shanghai City. "It is very important to help freshmen to take the first step in University, and history learning has opened up new ideas for freshmen education. Ideological and political education is a key course to implement the fundamental task of moral education. I think it is very meaningful for freshmen to have such a class of party history and ideological and political education that integrates Shanghai's red cultural resources and school characteristics, "said Bai Huashan.

This special history lesson deeply touched the freshmen. Zhou Junzhe, a 2020 freshman of the Textile Institute, said, "I didn't expect that there were so many red genes and traditions in the textile industry. Today's course has deepened my understanding of the school and the major I have studied. As a textile man, I am very proud! I will learn professional knowledge well, better inherit textile culture and practice craftsman spirit. " The spirit of selfless struggle of the freshmen in Yizu college was reflected in their selfless spirit of hard struggle. Our generation should turn these precious spirits into powerful driving forces and consciously shoulder the historical mission entrusted to us by the times. "