Dear Parents,
Today is 21 July 2012, Racial Harmony Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the communal riot that occurred in 21 July 1964. The children celebrated it in school yesterday. They were encouraged to wear their traditional costumes.
This year, the children learnt about the chinese culture, particularly the Chinese Opera. It is a popular form of musical drama in the chinese culture. Masks are used to portray a character’s role.They were shown a variety examples of masks. Each main colour has its own meaning.
White: Sinister, evil, crafty, treacherous, and suspicious.
Green: Impulsive and violent
Red: Brave and loyal.
Black: Rough, fierce or bold character.
Yellow: Ambitious, fierce, cool-headed.
Blue: Fierceness, loyal and clever.
During social studies lesson, the students made the masks.
As you can see from the picture, the students made a point not to use white colour on the masks as it represents bad character. There is one mask though, which looked as if white was used but the child stood on his ground claiming that it's light blue. J
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