王绍利 / Wang Shaoli

2014年9月9日,吉林省白城市洮北区平安镇中心校乡村少年宫,孩子们演奏古筝。近年来,洮北区得到中央专项彩票公益金支持,在各乡村学校少年宫相继成立了舞蹈、器乐、书法、乒乓球等活动小组,为广大学生搭建起施展才艺的舞台。

Children play the guzheng, or the Chinese zither, at a village of Taobei District in Baicheng, Jilin Province, on Sept. 9, 2014. Supported by the central government's public welfare lottery fund, the district has set up after-school groups to teach rural students dancing, music instruments, calligraphy and table tennis.

赵树宴 / Zhao Shuyan

2018年11月16日,安徽省六安市金寨县梅山镇小南京村“山娃娃古筝班”,俞晓冬教留守儿童学习古筝。2014年,俞晓冬自筹资金20多万元购置40多架古筝,无偿对山村留守儿童进行古筝培训和音乐教育,被孩子们称为“古筝妈妈”。在她的指导下,一批批山里孩子在小学毕业前通过全国器乐水平十级考试,还多次参加国内公益演出。

Yu Xiaodong teaches children to play the guzheng, or the Chinese zither, in a village in Lu’an, Anhui Province, on Nov. 16, 2018. Yu spent over 200,000 yuan buying more than 40 guzheng to provide music education to local children.