Since the founding of Konfuziusinstitute Munich, it designed Chinese calligraphy and folk dance lessons for the local primary and secondary students. In 2009, assessed and agreed by the municipal government and Youth Bureau, these two kinds of lessons were officially incorporated into the routine activities of teenagers holidays, which are held 5 times a year in Munich. The Youth Bureau publishes the Holiday Activities Guide every year. The brochures, with a very broad propaganda, are placed at the advocacy organizations of the municipal government, youth activity centers, libraries, and Municipal Government Information Office, etc. Local people can get it at any time.

February 24 and April 13, 2012, Konfuziusinstitute Munich organized the first two Holiday Youth Calligraphy Class of this year. According to the requirement of Youth Bureau, the number of students should be limited within 12 each term. The local students are very enthusiastic about Chinese culture, so each registration is soon over. A total of 25 students, 8 to 12 years old, participated in the two calligraphy experience classes. At the beginning of the class, the teacher briefly introduced Chinese characters, and then the students started to write the easiest Chinese characters "一、二 、三", so they did not have the fear of difficulties to write Chinese characters. For those students, the art of Chinese characters with pictures made the novel characters look more beautiful. The students imitated grinding the ink, smoothed the brush, then focused on tracing. In their eyes, calligraphy is more like painting. The teachers translated their names into Chinese, and then the students wrote them with a brush in a kind of mold.

In addition to the calligraphy, the students also learned painting "cloisonne plates." They drew animals, or painted plants with amazing talent. Some of them excitedly wrote their Chinese name on it. Though the "cloisonne plates" they drew are not the elegant Chinese traditional style, they are very innovative. Red, the representative color of China, can not be missed in the class. The teacher guided the students to make a Chinese lantern. Red lantern with yellow tassels looks "very Chinese".

At end of the course, each student holding their own "paint" calligraphy work, the creative cloisonne plate and booming lantern stood in a row to take a photo. The cultural knowledge the students obtained in the 3-hour course is limited, but the students more or less can have more impressions and understanding of China, an old and distant country.

By Konfuziusinstitute Munich