Thousands of parents and students came to the Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam to pray for luck for the upcoming 2023 high school graduation exam.
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Students offer prayers for good luck at the Temple of Literature. Photo: LDO |
For a long time, candidates often come to the Temple of Literature to touch the turtle's head to pray for success. But recently, they have taken it a step further, writing their wishes for good luck on paper to present as offerings.
People imagine many so-called "spiritual" things to guide their children to fulfill their wishes. In addition to touching the turtle's head and writing petitions, there is now an additional "curtain" of using your finger to touch the velvet cloth, where there is the line "Talents are the vital energy of the nation" by Than Nhan Trung to ask to pass the exam and become a talented person.
Parents and candidates came to make offerings, holding money in their hands, silently praying. Looking at this image, one could only say that it was superstitious and blind. Money, bargaining, and trading with the gods. Recently, before the public 10th grade entrance exam, many parents and candidates came to the Temple of Literature to pray. They brought "10th grade entrance exam notices", prepared prayers with their children's full names and registration numbers. On the table of offerings, many families brought pens and registration numbers to pray for their children's luck.
But that's not all, there's one more thing, that is fortune telling on exam questions. Fortune telling has appeared again in the story of exams.
“This year, students are predicting the exam results and are placing their trust in the works: The Ferryman of the Da River, A Phu's Wife, Who Named the River, The Picked-Up Wife, Country, and Tay Tien. Students should not predict (predict the exam results), this is very dangerous because the Ministry has no instructions on how to narrow down the works, most exams in previous years still surprise candidates who memorized them. Focusing on and reviewing the main points will help students be proactive and confident in completing the exam well” - Ms. Dinh Thi Thuy, a teacher at Phenikaa School, shared in the newspaper some notes for students when reviewing for the exam.
It's time we seriously analyze and review this activity, considered a "cultural practice", to determine whether it is necessary to "preserve" it or should be eliminated.
For our children's generation, the young people will be global citizens, integrated into the civilized world, and cannot believe in such unscientific things.
Everyone is shouting about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 4.0 technology, but taking their children to pray and pray to pass exams is something that is too strange for the civilized world . If we let our children be influenced by superstition, believing in the protection of gods rather than making efforts to study and themselves, it will be harmful not only to some people but will negatively affect many generations.
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