3 essentials history

2. Hello China: Chinese Characters
Brushstrokes warm-up 2+ minutes

4. The Book of Songs is the first collection of ancient Chinese poetry and it ranks as one of the Confucian classics.
It includes 305 poems that date from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn
Period. It is divided into three parts: the custom, the elegance and the ode. At that time, its function was to
educate or enlighten one about etiquette.
Pictured above: The first song in the Book of Songs, handwritten by the Qianlong Emperor with accompanying
painting.

5. Demonstration of Street poetry...calligraphy ( notice brush)
Translation of traditional Chinese Poem:
Ancient Chinese poem in pin yin: Yantze River flows to the East:
【爱李/dance】 采薇/Harvest Sprouts: