Our lecturers Tu Shu, Gu Lingxuan and Chen Jingran moved under the leadership of the Chinese director of the Confucius class, Mrs. Hao Wenjun, for at least a few hours, a piece of China to the Vltava. As part of the cooperation between our Confucius Classroom and the Townshend International School in Hluboká nad Vltavou, they prepared a nice afternoon for forty of its students from all over the world, full of new knowledge about the Chinese language, culture and Chinese cuisine.

Towshend International School students came to Hluboká for education from all over the world. They are united by a huge openness, communicativeness and an exceptional desire to learn and learn new things. And so the meeting with our lecturers was amazing in one word.

Ms. Chen Jingran showed students how historically complex and incomprehensible Chinese characters arose for foreign readers. What internal logic they have, how they developed with each other, how it is drawn correctly that whoever learns to recognize or paint a symbol can immediately know the whole word or phrase!

In addition to graduating from the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai Gu Linxuan is a great lover and virtuoso of the traditional Gu Zheng string instrument. Therefore, it is clear that in her sound presentation she introduced students to Chinese traditional instruments, what sound they have and what role and function they play in traditional folk music. 

Miss Tu Shu has the longest experience in teaching Czech students. As a good teacher, she managed to teach students several Chinese phrases in a matter of minutes. And so the students can already say with a beautiful pronunciation Hello, Thank you and Goodbye … 

But better than seeing and hearing a hundred times is to try a new skill on your own. And so the lecture hall turned into one big workshop and everyone found their own. As Chinese director Hao Wenjun noted from her teaching experience, it is common for younger girls to regularly tend to traditional handicrafts, such as braiding pendants from strings and cutting out sophisticated jigsaw puzzles of colored paper. Older students and boys want to try the ancient venerable art of calligraphy – writing individual symbols, but also their name with a brush and ink. And they did very well under the guidance of our lecturers, especially when they were able to strengthen their work with original Chinese delicacies of sweet and spicy flavors.

We believe that we will be able to repeat such a beautiful afternoon, full of enthusiastic students.