What courses does Tongzhou University for the Aged offer?

By 2004, Tongzhou University for the Aged had set up calligraphy (regular script, running script, official script and cursive script), Chinese painting (flowers and birds, landscapes), health massage, family dinner cooking, poetry appreciation, poetry practice, clothing cutting, health scraping, painting and calligraphy mounting, photography, seal cutting, Tai Ji Chuan (sword), erhu, English, and so on.

The university for the aged is a classroom for the elderly to update their knowledge, a place for keeping fit and nourishing their hearts, a garden for happy entertainment, a platform for making friends and a base for intellectual development.

With the increase of the elderly population in China, universities for the elderly rose in many places in China in 1980s. 1973, the world's first university for the aged was established in France.

The university for the aged has a very flexible way of running a school, which includes centralized teaching in a fixed place and remote teaching. The teaching content of the university for the aged is very rich, mainly including health preservation, cooking, art and so on.

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Tongzhou District People's Government of Beijing-Tongzhou University of Senior Citizen