On October 19, International Education College organized a wonderful and vivid Taijiquan workshop for international students. In the class, Taijiquan teacher showed the students the combat skills of Taijiquan, which was original purpose of creating of Taijiquan. The students experienced the mystery of Taijiquan and the Chinese wisdom of overcoming hardness with softness and advancing with retreat. At the end of the activity, the students praised Taijiquan and Chinese culture for its profundity, and looked forward to the next cultural workshop.
Taijiquan is one of the excellent traditional cultures in China. It was founded based on the philosophy of yin and Yang of Taoism. Today, more than 300 million people in the world learn Taijiquan. Through the study of Taijiquan, international students can not only understand a cultural phenomenon, but also feel the Chinese philosophy behind it, so as to enhance their interest in learning Chinese.
This cultural workshop is a part of Second Classroom activities in CIE, and also the first offline workshop since the epidemic. The Second Classroom for international students is CIE’s important project. It aims at enriching the extracurricular life of international students, helping them understand Chinese culture deeply and feel the charm of China in practice. There will be more cultural experience activities this semester. Please stay tuned.
