2024-2025 Fireflies Read Online builds a broad platform for students at different learning stages, allowing them to learn from reading, accumulate knowledge of Chinese history, culture and national conditions, and cultivate humanistic quality and positive values in the process. Entering the new academic year, the platform will continue to present more high-quality articles to the academic community and strengthen cross-curriculum reading.(Chi only)
China consists of 56 ethnic groups, of which the Han Ethnic Group has the largest population. Besides the Han Ethnic Group, there are 55 ethnic minorities. They are distributed in different provinces and have their own unique costumes, festivals, and diets, creating a rich Chinese culture and letting us to feel the diversity and unity of Chinese culture. (Chi only)
The Chinese unicorn (qilin) is a creature in Chinese legend and is known as “the beast of benevolence”. It is one of the “four spirits” with the phoenix, the turtle, and the dragon. The celebratory unicorn dance is even an intangible cultural heritage in Hong Kong. (Chi only)
Hong Kong scientists have won many international awards. How have their scientific achievements changed and benefited the world? How can researchers utilise innovative thinking to respond to the needs of the Hong Kong community and integrate into the overall development of the country? How can we help Hong Kong's young people realise their dreams and turn their ideas into reality? (Chi only)
China is a unified multi-ethnic nation, a nation of all the ethnic groups, past and present, found within the territory of China. The Chinese nation has a history going back thousands of years, and during that time the ethnic groups in the Central Plain and along the borders existed side-by-side, generation after generation: they lived together, merged, separated, re-grouped, separated again, and re-grouped again.