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In order to appreciate a culture, it is helpful to enter into its art, food, and customs more fully. Do the following exercises as a means to gain a greater appreciation of Chinese culture.

Choose one of these projects to complete. Then write 200 words describing your experience.

  1. Using a bamboo brush, a bowl of black watercolor paint and a large piece of white paper, paint a picture of bamboo. Each section of the bamboo’s trunk should be drawn upward. The whole trunk should also be formed on the same principle, from root upward.
  2. Prepare a Chinese meal for your family, and eat it with chopsticks.
  3. Study some Chinese calligraphy characters and paint them.

bamboo brush painting