On October 2, 2019, over 100 teachers and students from Streesmutprakan School participated in Chinese culture exchange activities, which was held by Confucius Institute at Assumption University (hereafter CIAU).
In order to bring different experience and new feelings to students, CIAU not only arranged Chinese traditional food making, but also colorful cultural activities with Chinese characteristics such as door knocker making, Chinese fans painting, oiled paper umbrellas painting.
At dumplings making’s site, students learned to roll the dough and make dumplings under the guidance of senior chef with more than 20 years of cooking experience, all students were turned into Chinese food chefs. After tasting the dumplings they made by themselves, students said happily: “Dumplings are so delicious!” At Chinese fans and oiled paper umbrellas painting sites, students painted cute pandas and beautiful lotuses under the instruction of teachers step by step. At facial making site, students gave full play to their imagination and drew unique and innovative facial makeup based on the traditional Peking Opera facial makeup. At door knocker making site, students successfully produced the vivid door knocker by themselves.
At the end of the experience activities, students expressed their gratitude to the culture experience activities in Chinese, such as “dumplings are so delicious, fans and the oiled paper umbrella are very beautiful”.
Written by Ms. Jiang Mengyin
Photographed by Mr. Yuan Zheng
Translated by Ms. Jiang Mengyin
Revised by Ms. Wang Jiao