Contents of the Chinese Culture Tour

Confucius Culture

Confucius, a Chinese thinker and educator 2,500 years ago, is the founder of the Confucian school and one of the most influential figures in the history of world culture. To this day, his teachings still influence the thoughts and behaviors of many Chinese people in the world, and Western academic circles have never stopped studying Confucius' thoughts. The Analects, which records the remarks of Confucius and his disciples, is regarded as a Confucian classic.

Qufu in Shandong Province is the hometown of Confucius. The "Three Confucius" there - Confucius Mansion, Confucius Temple, and Confucius Forest (the cemetery of Confucius and his descendants), are tourist attractions to explore Confucius' culture. China International Travel Service often organizes Confucius cultural seminars for tourist groups from Western countries at the "Three Kongs" to study the "six arts" advocated by Confucius: etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics, as well as Chinese chess, calligraphy, painting, and horse riding. Archery. Every September 26th of the lunar calendar, the birthday of Confucius, the Confucius Cultural Tourism Festival is held in Qufu, Shandong.

Peking Opera

Peking Opera is a unique stage art in China. The performance pays equal attention to singing and dancing, and integrates martial arts skills, focusing on "singing, chanting, acting and fighting". What is admirable is the unique abstract performance technique; on an empty stage, through the actor's singing, body movements, expressions, eyes, etc., accompanied by music, virtual reality is substituted, so that the audience can truly understand the opening and closing of windows. , riding horses and sedan chairs, and other actions as well as the development of the plot; even scenes with only a few actors can create a majestic momentum of thousands of troops.

Special Peking Opera performances specially designed for foreign tourists, trying to avoid language barriers, often choose "Sanchakou", "Jade Bracelet Picking Up", "Havoc in Heaven", "Drunk Concubine" and other action-oriented performances Qiang and Bai Shao's repertoire uses dance, body and other languages ??to express the plot. The colorful costumes, the unique facial makeup of the clowns, and Chinese national musical instruments such as the piano, sheng, gongs and drums often arouse great interest among foreign tourists.

Calligraphy and seal cutting

In some Eastern countries, brushes dipped in ink are used to write text and paintings, which originated from China. Chinese calligraphy includes seal script, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script and other fonts. Chinese paintings include ink paintings, silk paintings, New Year paintings, etc. There are both freehand brushwork with splash ink and fine brushwork outlines, expressing various subjects such as figures, landscapes, flowers, fruits, birds, animals, fish and insects.

The four utensils required for calligraphy and painting: pen, inkstone, paper and ink, are called the "Four Treasures of the Study". The most famous ones are the "Hu Brush" from Huzhou, Zhejiang, which are made of the finest goat hair, rabbit hair, and weasel hair; the "Duan Inkstone" from Duanxi, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, whose stones are selected from the finest local rocks; and "Xuan paper" from Xuancheng, Anhui Province and "Hui ink" from Huizhou both have unique craftsmanship and a long history. These production areas are tourist spots for foreign tourists to explore Chinese cultural products. They watch and learn about traditional craftsmanship there, and buy the four treasures of the study that they have long desired.

Seal carving, which matches calligraphy and painting, is also regarded by foreign tourists as a unique culture of China. When they travel to China, they often ask local translators to translate their names into Chinese. They select high-quality Qingtian stone or Shoushan stone as materials, and ask local carvers to carve their Chinese names into a seal. This is very interesting. Souvenirs.

Silk

Since the ancient Romans first saw the silk robe worn by Caesar the Great 2000 years ago, they knew that there was a country in the far East that could produce such silk robes. China, with its beautiful and wonderful clothing materials, they call it the "Land of Silk." Famous silk production areas such as Suzhou and Hangzhou are places where modern tourists go to explore the mysteries of silk.

Tourists in Suzhou and Hangzhou can visit silk museums to learn about the history and production process of silk, visit rural areas and silk factories where mulberry and silkworms are grown, and craft research institutes that embroider on silk. Visitors can not only visit, but also participate in production operations such as mulberry picking, silkworm rearing, silk reeling, silk weaving, silk dyeing, and silk printing. They can choose from colorful silk products.

Martial Arts Kung Fu

The traditional Chinese martial arts, called "Kung Fu" by many foreigners, has also aroused the interest of tourists. Therefore, the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan, and the small village Chenjiagou are tourist destinations for foreign tourists who love Chinese "Kung Fu" to seek out the birthplace of "Shaolin Boxing" and Tai Chi. There, you can not only observe authentic "Kung Fu", but also become a student in a local martial arts school or martial arts hall to learn and explore the true meaning of Chinese martial arts. Tai Chi in martial arts, as well as Qigong and acupuncture, are traditional Chinese health care and medical methods. Many foreign tourists have heard about their miraculous functions of strengthening the body and curing diseases, and have made a special trip to China to seek advice and medical treatment.

Porcelain

Porcelain was first produced in China. "Porcelain" and "China" in English are the same word. The world regards China as the "Land of Porcelain", and Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China's famous porcelain capital, has naturally become a destination that foreign tourists yearn for.

In Jingdezhen, foreign tourists can see the ruins of porcelain kilns dating back thousands of years, as well as rare ancient porcelain and fragments unearthed at those ruins. They can also make a porcelain bowl with their own hands under the guidance of local craftsmen according to ancient Chinese craftsmanship, engrave their names on it, send it to the furnace for baking for a few hours, and it will become a very meaningful souvenir. Although this porcelain bowl may be very rough, it is probably the first porcelain made by myself in my life, and it was made in China, the country of porcelain, and the capital of porcelain, Jingdezhen. It is worth showing off in front of relatives and friends. Fan.