Empowering Youth Ideals and Beliefs Education through Red Venues

Red resources embody the spiritual strength of the Communist Party of China as it forges ahead through hardships and dangers, and serve as precious spiritual nourishment for the growth and development of young people in the New Era. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed, “We must take red resources as vivid teaching materials for strengthening ideals and beliefs and enhancing Party spirit, tell well the stories of the Party, the revolution, the base areas, and heroes and martyrs, strengthen education in revolutionary traditions, patriotism, and youth ideology and morality, pass on the red gene well, and ensure that the red river of history never changes color.” [1]1 This is a quotation from Xi Jinping’s remarks during an inspection tour, emphasizing the importance of preserving and utilizing revolutionary heritage for ideological education. This important assertion has charted the course for the protection and utilization of red resources. The *Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development* [2]2 The 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) is a national strategic plan for China’s economic and social development; the proposal was adopted by the CPC Central Committee in 2025. further proposes to “make good use of red resources and strengthen education in ideals and beliefs for young people,” promoting red culture as tangible and perceptible, and red spirit as internalized in the mind and externalized in action. As the concrete carriers of red resources, red venues are the core positions for conducting patriotic education among young people, providing a “second classroom” for the ideological and political education of youth in the New Era that combines historical depth, theoretical profundity, and practical effectiveness.

红色资源凝结着中国共产党在艰难险阻中砥砺前行的精神力量，是新时代青少年成长成才的宝贵精神养分。习近平总书记强调，“要把红色资源作为坚定理想信念、加强党性修养的生动教材，讲好党的故事、革命的故事、根据地的故事、英雄和烈士的故事，加强革命传统教育、爱国主义教育、青少年思想道德教育，把红色基因传承好，确保红色江山永不变色”。这一重要论断为红色资源的保护利用指明了方向。《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》进一步提出要“用好红色资源，加强青少年理想信念教育”，推动红色文化可感可触、红色精神内化于心、外化于行。红色场馆作为红色资源的具象载体，是面向青少年开展爱国主义教育的核心阵地，为新时代青少年思想政治教育提供了兼具历史厚度、理论深度与实践效度的“第二课堂”。

The core value of red venues lies in genuinely integrating the red gene and revolutionary spirit into educational carriers and ideological content, playing an irreplaceable role in cultivating young people’s patriotic spirit, sense of responsibility, and fighting spirit. In terms of cognitive cultivation, red venues are the carriers through which young people can understand red history and revolutionary spirit. Red history contains the answers to “why the Communist Party of China works, why Marxism works, and why socialism with Chinese characteristics works.” The process by which red venues narrate historical stories is a process of transforming abstract historical threads and historical conclusions into visualized teaching, allowing young people to comprehend the arduous journey of the CPC in blazing new trails through hardships and overcoming obstacles, and the great achievements it has made, thereby recognizing the vivid education that “red political power was hard-won, New China was hard-won, and socialism with Chinese characteristics was hard-won.” [3]3 This phrase is a standard formulation in CPC discourse, summarizing the historical significance of the Party’s revolutionary and socialist achievements.

红色场馆的核心价值就是要把红色基因和革命精神真正融入教育载体和思想内容当中，对于培养青少年爱国主义精神、责任担当和奋斗精神有着不可替代的作用。在认知培育上，红色场馆是青少年读懂红色历史和革命精神的载体。红色历史蕴含着“中国共产党为什么能、马克思主义为什么行、中国特色社会主义为什么好”的答案，红色场馆讲述历史故事的过程，是把抽象的历史脉络、历史结论转化为形象化教学的过程，让青少年感悟中国共产党人筚路蓝缕、披荆斩棘的艰辛历程和取得的伟大成就的过程，认识到“红色政权来之不易、新中国来之不易、中国特色社会主义来之不易”的生动教育。

In the dimension of value guidance, red venues are the spiritual fertile ground for young people to shape correct values and cultivate noble character, providing them with relatable and lovable spiritual models and value benchmarks, guiding them to emulate the advanced and cultivate fine qualities of hard struggle and willingness to contribute. In the dimension of practical education, red venues are the practical platform for young people to achieve the unity of knowledge and action, enabling them to comprehend the advanced thought of the CPC through immersive learning, bridging the gap between theory and reality, and promoting the transformation of patriotic sentiment and the aspiration to strengthen the country into concrete actions of diligent study and service to society, thereby completing the enhancement of the effectiveness of ideological and political education from “knowing what it is” and “knowing why it is” to “firmly practicing it.” [4]4 “Knowing what it is,” “knowing why it is,” and “firmly practicing it” are stages of learning derived from classical Chinese philosophy, often used in educational contexts to denote progression from knowledge to action. Although the dissemination of red culture among young people has achieved results, under the dual effects of consumption upgrading and technological empowerment, the demand of young people for red culture has shifted from visiting and learning to personalized, interactive, and immersive active experiences, placing higher demands on the novelty and resonance of red venues, which has gradually become an urgent need to enhance the effectiveness of ideological and political education.

在价值引领维度上，红色场馆是青少年塑造正确价值观、涵养高尚品格的精神沃土，为青少年成长提供可感可爱的精神模范和价值标杆，引导他们对标先进，涵养艰苦奋斗、甘于奉献的优良品格。在实践育人维度上，红色场馆是青少年实现知行合一的实践平台，在沉浸式学习中体悟中国共产党的先进思想，弥补理论与现实的隔阂，推动将爱国情、强国志转化为勤奋学习、服务社会的实际行动，完成从“知其然”“知其所以然”到“笃行之”的思政教育成效的提升。尽管红色文化传播在青少年群体中已取得成效，但在消费升级和技术赋能双重作用下，青少年群体对红色文化的需求已从参观学习向个性化、交互性、沉浸式的主动体验转变，对红色场馆的新奇性与共鸣度提出更高要求，逐渐成为提升思政教育实效的迫切需要。

Red venues are not merely passive historical records and educational carriers; they have a two-way dialogic interactive relationship with their audience. The construction practice of red venues aligns with young people’s knowledge needs, aesthetic expectations, and emotional appeals, advancing practice in multiple dimensions to truly make red spaces a vivid classroom for young people to learn history, understand principles, enhance credibility, and promote virtue. Utilize red venue design to adhere to the authentic core of the red gene. Be faithful to authentic historical materials, use technological presentation methods to reproduce historical situations, and construct an immersive historical cognitive space. On the basis of technologies such as IoT sensor scanning and modeling and computer vision algorithms for restoring historical images, integrate the narrative elements of red history—“people, events, times, places, and objects”—to enhance the vividness of historical narration. Strengthen emotional resonance and interaction, promoting a shift from “transmitting knowledge” to “transmitting spirit.” Red venues create a diverse field of emotional interaction, activating young people’s desire to explore red history and revolutionary figures, enabling them to perceive their noble character and fighting spirit in a dialogue that transcends time and space with heroes and models. Innovate aesthetic experience methods to enhance the infectious power of red venues in educating people. Red venues need to integrate aesthetic concepts into the entire process of spatial design. Use visual symbols such as flags and sculptures to reflect a solemn and dignified spatial atmosphere, use auditory symbols such as red songs and bugle calls to evoke collective memory, and use behavioral symbols such as oath-taking and wreath-laying to strengthen the sense of ritual, forming an immersive, full-sensory experience field. Digital technology expands the audience’s aesthetic perception; VR/AR breaks through the limitations of time and space; 3D rendering restores scenes of red sites. Through aesthetic interest, red culture is subtly integrated into ideological and political education, educating people through beauty and culture, guiding young people to enhance credibility, promote virtue, and practice diligently in the midst of edutainment.

红色场馆并非单纯被动的历史记录和教育载体，而是有着与受众双向的对话互动关系。红色场馆的建设实践与青少年知识需求、审美期待、情感诉求相契合，多维度推进实践，使红色空间真正成为青少年学史明理、增信崇德的生动课堂。利用红色场馆设计，坚守红色基因的本真内核。忠实于真实史料，利用技术化的呈现方式再现历史情境，构建沉浸式的历史认知空间。在物联网传感器扫描建模、计算机视觉算法修复历史影像等技术基础上，进行红色历史“人、事、时、地、物”叙事要素的融合，提高史实叙述的生动性。加强情感共鸣互动，推动从“传知”走向“传神”。红色场馆营造多元的情感交往场域，激活青少年对红色历史、革命人物的探究欲，使其在与英模跨越时空的对话中，感知其高尚品格与奋斗精神。创新审美体验方式，提升红色场馆育人的感染力。红色场馆需将美学理念融入空间设计的全过程。以旗帜、雕塑等视觉符号体现庄严肃穆的空间氛围，以红歌、军号等听觉符号唤起集体记忆，以宣誓、敬献花篮等行为符号加强仪式感，形成沉浸式、全感官的体验场域。数字技术拓展观众的审美感知，VR/AR 拓宽时空的限制，3D 渲染还原红色遗址的场景，通过审美趣味把红色文化潜移默化地融入思政教育当中，以美育人、以文育人，在寓教于乐中引导青少年增信、崇德、力行。

Using red venues as a carrier for educational work, explore new forms and paths of education, precisely align with the personalized growth needs of young people, and construct an experience model integrating knowledge acquisition, community expression, and spiritual inspiration. Rely on big data technology to analyze and assess the knowledge reserves, visit preferences, and growth demands of different youth groups, customize red cultural products, and achieve precise and personalized delivery of red cultural content. Break through the one-way communication model of red venues, create interactive scenes with cultural resonance, and plan methods such as check-in tasks, inquiry-based learning, red story performances, and debate competitions that align with the interests of young people, prompting students to produce content rich in sociality and cultural dissemination during the experience process, publishing related topics on online platforms, creating short videos, and combining offline practice check-in models for promotion and publicity, promoting the “buzz” dissemination of red culture among young people. [5]5 “Buzz” dissemination refers to a marketing concept where information spreads rapidly through word-of-mouth and social networks, here applied to cultural transmission. Through exchanges and collisions among youth groups, young people can mutually influence, edify, and promote each other, gradually creating a strong atmosphere of advocating red culture, promoting the red gene, and practicing red spirit, thereby truly completing the transformation from perceptual understanding to rational cognition, allowing the red gene to enter the mind and heart, and transform into their own spiritual pursuit and conscious action.

以红色场馆为载体进行育人教育，探索新的育人形式及路径，精确对接青少年个性化成长需求，构建集知识获取、社群表达、精神感召于一体的体验模式。依托大数据技术分析研判不同青少年群体的知识储备、参观偏好与成长诉求，定制红色文化产品，实现红色文化内容传播的精准化、个性化投递。突破红色场馆的单向传播模式，打造具有文化共鸣的互动场景，策划打卡任务、探究学习、红色故事演绎、辩论会等符合青少年兴趣点的方式方法，促使学生在体验过程中产出富有社交性与文化传播性的内容，在网络平台发布相关话题、进行短视频创作并结合线下实践打卡模式进行宣传推广，推动红色文化在青少年群体中实现“蜂鸣”传播。在青年群体之间的交流碰撞中，青少年能够相互熏陶感染、互相促进，逐渐营造出崇尚红色文化、弘扬红色基因、践行红色精神的浓厚氛围，进而真正完成由感性认识向理性认知的转变，让红色基因入脑入心，并转化为其自身的精神追求和行动自觉。

To achieve high-quality development of red venues in the New Era, it is necessary to innovate practice on the basis of upholding fundamental principles, promote the deep integration of cognitive learning, spiritual inheritance, and modern experience, and make red venues truly become places for inheriting the red gene and cultivating ideals and beliefs, providing strong spiritual motivation for young people to grow into new generations capable of undertaking the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

新时代红色场馆实现高质量发展，要在守正基础上创新实践，推动认知学习、精神传承与现代体验的深度融合，让红色场馆真正成为红色基因的传承地、理想信念的培育地，为青少年成长为担当民族复兴大任的时代新人提供强大精神动力。

(The author is a doctoral student at the School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, and an associate professor at the School of Political Science and Law, Qilu University of Technology.)

（作者系山东大学哲学与社会发展学院博士研究生、齐鲁工业大学政法学院副教授）