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In our classroom, teachers all have the Chinese Teaching Certificates，or their colledge major is Chinese Teaching.

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We have many 1-1 free Mandarin Classes every week by Volunteer teachers.Welcome to reserve by email! All the teachers are certificated and enthusiastic Chinese volunteers. They teach during their free time.

Chengdu is the hometown of panda，hot-pot,peppery and spicy food~Welcome friends from all over the world:) 

Plentiful

　　We also run Brush calligraphy-class by very professional and experienced teachers.And we have Outdoor Mandarin and Chengdu Culture Classes.Here's about the class:

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_75d85b740100tci3.html

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Teaching “把（ba)”字句 

student practised a lot!

1-1 class by professional teacher on 3rd June 2012

1-1 free class by professional teacher on 3rd June 2012

Learning measure words

1-1 free class by professional teacher on 17th March 2012

They are talking about 《Yi Jing》which is mysterious science book in Chinese history.

Topic Group Class on 21th Feb 2012

We're disscussing the culture differences between China and West.

Start from Chinese Medical 2min from Kongfu movie.

Avner even knew SunWen didn't have long braid during that period!

Later we preciated the Han dinasty song by very famous singer ZiJin. We really enjoyed the lyric from 2000 years agao.So terse and beautiful!

Topic Group Class on 14th Dec

We had a fun evening!

Daytime Group Class

Describing families in Chinese

1-1 form by University teacher on 9th Jan

Learning Direction Expression in Mandarin.

Stroke "Heng Zhe"

Stroke "Shu Wan Gou"

Teacher is testing student

listening

pieces of work of calligraphy by Mr. Yang

Mr Yang is writing calligraphy to Mandarin Corner.

learning

　　Mandarin Corner will invite Mr Yang who's director of Sichuan Brush calligraphy Association to teach and share this art with us on Sunday.

Activity's name

Brush calligraphy Appreciation

Time

4th September, Sunday, 2:30pm-4:30pm

Content

There're tow parts of this activity

1.introdution of Chinese Brush calligraphy

2.We'll prepare brushes，rice paper，ink for you to practise with Teacher Yang

 

3.When we appreciate Brush calligraphy,we also can appreciate Kung Fu Cha.

 

cost

For free

 

Address

成都红星路一段35号1楼

23th Oct 2011 appreciation of traditional Chinese musical instrument "Zheng" and a Chinese-class salon

Mandarin Corner will give a appreciation of traditional Chinese musical instrument "Zheng" and a Chinese-class salon on Sunday(23th Oct)2:30pm-4:30pm.

Activity's name 

Traditional Chinese musical instrument"Zheng" and Chinese-class salon

Form

Need reservation.Please reserve to this email address: 1304544180@qq.com

Chinese-class and "Zheng" 's appreciation 

成都红星路一段35号1楼

The guzheng, or gu zheng (Chinese: 古筝; pinyin: gǔzhēng) or zheng (筝) (gu- means "ancient") is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. It belongs to the zither family of string instruments.

The guzheng is the parent instrument of the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh.


A modern guzhengThe guzheng should not to be confused with the guqin, another ancient Chinese zither but without bridges.


Description
The modern-day guzheng is a plucked, half-tube zither with movable bridges and 21 strings, although it can have anywhere from 15 to 25 strings (a customized version exists with more than 34 strings). The guzheng's strings were formerly made of twisted silk, though by the 20th century most players used metal strings (generally steel for the high strings and copper-wound steel for the bass strings). Since the mid-20th century most performers use steel strings flatwound with nylon.

The guzheng has a large resonant cavity made from wu tong wood (Paulownia tomentosa). Other components may be made from other woods, usually for structural and decorative purposes.


History
The guzheng has existed since the Warring States Period and became especially popular during the Qin dynasty. The ancient guzheng had 12 strings, which gradually evolved into it current forms.

Until 1961, the common guzheng had 18 strings. In 1961 Xu Zhengao together with Wang Xunzhi introduced the first 21-string guzheng after two years of research and development. In 1961, they also invented the "S-shaped" left string rest, which was quickly adopted by all guzheng makers and is still used today, whether in the shape of the letter "S", "C", etc. The 21-string zheng is the most commonly used, but some traditional musicians still use the 16-string, especially along the southeastern coastal provinces of China and in Taiwan.

The guzheng is tuned to a pentatonic scale, the 16-string zheng is tuned to give three complete octaves, while the 21-string zheng has four complete octaves.


Playing styles and performers
There are many techniques used in the playing of the guzheng, including basic plucking actions (right or both hands) at the right portion and pressing actions at the left portion (by the left hand to produce pitch ornamentations and vibrato) as well as tremolo (right hand). These techniques of playing the guzheng can create sounds that can evoke the sense of a cascading waterfall, thunder and even the scenic countryside. Plucking is done mainly by the right hand with four plectra (picks) attached to the fingers. Advanced players may use picks attached to the fingers of both hands. Ancient picks were made of ivory and later also from tortoise shell.

The guzheng's pentatonic scale is tuned to Do, Re, Mi, So and La, but Fa and Ti can also be produced by pressing the strings to the left of the bridges. Well known pieces for the instrument include Yu Zhou Chang Wan (Singing at night on fishing boat), Gao Shan Liu Shui (High mountains flowing water) and Han Gong Qiu Yue (Han palace autumn moon).

Two broad playing styles (schools) can be identified as Northern and Southern, although many traditional regional styles still exist. The Northern styles is associated with Henan and Shandong while the Southern style is with the Chaozhou and Hakka regions of eastern Guangdong. Both Gao Shan Liu Shui (High mountains flowing water) and Han Gong Qiu Yue (Han palace autumn moon) are from the Shandong school, while Han ya xi shui (Winter Crows Playing in the Water) and Chu shui lian (Lotus Blossoms Emerging from the Water) are major pieces of the Chaozhou and Hakka repertories respectively.

Important players and teachers in the 20th century include; Wang Xunzhi (1899–1972) who popularized the Wulin zheng school centred in Hangzhou in Zhejiang, Lou Shuhua rearranged a traditional guzheng piece and named it Yu zhou chang wan, Liang Tsai-Ping (1911-2000) edited the first guzheng teaching manual Nizheng pu in 1938, Cao Dongfu (1898–1970) from Henan, Gao Zicheng (1918- ) and Zhao Yuzhai (1924- ) from Shandong; Su Wenxian (1907–71), Guo Ying (1914- ) and Lin Maogen (1929- ) from Chaozhou, the Hakka Luo Jiuxiang (1902–78), and Cao Zheng (1920-1998) who trained in the Henan school.

Many new pieces have been composed since the 1950s which used new playing techniques such as the playing of harmony and counterpoint by the left hand. Pieces in this new style include Qing feng nian (Celebrating the Harvest, Zhao Yuzhai, 1955), Zhan tai feng (Fighting the Typhoon, Wang Changyuan, 1965) and the guzheng concerto "Miluo River Fantasia" (Li Huanzhi, 1984). Contemporary experimental atonal pieces have been composed since the 1980s.


The guzheng in other genres
The guzheng has been used by the Chinese performer Wang Yong (王勇) in the rock band of Cui Jian, as well as in free improvised music. Zhang Yan used it in a jazz context, performing and recording with Asian American jazz bandleader Jon Jang. Other zheng players who perform in non-traditional styles include Randy Raine-Reusch, Mei Han, Zi Lan Liao, Levi Chen, Andreas Vollenweider, Jaron Lanier, Mike Hovancsek, and David Sait. The American composer Lou Harrison (1917–2003) played and composed for the instrument. Jerusalem based multi-instrumentalist Bradley Fish is the most widely recorded artist of loops for the guzheng. Fish is known for using the guzheng with a rock-influenced style and electronic effects on his 1996 collaboration "The Aquarium Conspiracy" with Sugarcubes/Björk drummer Sigtryggur Baldursson. The virtual band Gorillaz used the guzheng in their song "Hong Kong" from the Help: A Day In The Life compilation. The Canadian composer Kevin Austin[1] has written several pieces for guzheng and electroacoustic sounds.

talk about cities you've ever been to in China

Min Min has been to many places.

Jasper and Arthur's turn

Game starts

李一 and MinMin wan too much

everybody performed~

we had a very happy class:)

16th June 2011 Mandarin Corner's Activity on Dragon Boat Festival

　　DuanWu Festival is for commemorating a famous patriotic poet QuYuan. In past time Chinese put rice-dumblings into river to feed fish to protect QuYuan's body.

    Today,the festival is for remembering relatives and for making wishes.

Mandarin Corner's students release sky lanternses.

All the lanternses are for making wish.

students and teachers met at 安顺廊桥"An Shun Lang Qiao"

students and teachers release river lanternses.

Everybody was happy that night:)

18th Nov 2011  Free PinYin Class

24th Sep 2011   Free Fruit Game Class

Teacher is explaining rules of game.

rushing

ready——

too hot

ready——

go!

After game, teachers summarized words.

Proffesional Group Class(2-3 students) by University Teacher 

Group Class

19th April 2011 Free PinYin Game Class

Today's evening, we played a game for trainning listening of PinYin.

Students and teachers all were very happy~

Playing games

Classroom

Tea set of KungFuCha

Teachers Wall & Students' messages  & Activities photos

Chengdu's map

Mandarin Corner's Chinese name: 成都汉语学堂 （Chengdu han yu xue tang）

Country Flags of students we've taught.

Welcome friends from all over the world~!