“Lovely Panda” – Children’s high-level class in Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia have traditional Chinese painting class
拉脱维亚当地时间11月21日，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院少儿高级班的学生们与汉语教师志愿者邹亚平一起和“可爱的熊猫”度过了快乐的时光。
课堂开始于欢快的动画“功夫熊猫”，动画用中国传统的水墨画手法传神的勾勒出熊猫和竹林的景象，憨态可掬的大熊猫灵活地打起了中国功夫，完美的呈现了中国元素的结合。接着，老师为学生们展示了许多熊猫的图片，学生们不禁对熊猫的可爱连声称赞，随后师生一起欣赏了熊猫的动画形象以及生动有趣的“熊猫表情包”，搞怪的元素和熊猫可爱的形象的结合让学生们捧腹大笑。在观看了美国留学生来到四川大熊猫基地与真实的大熊猫互动的视频后，学生们纷纷表示很羡慕，也想到中国看看真正的大熊猫。了解了关于熊猫的介绍后，下面就正式进入了“书画环节”，有了上一次国画书画课的经验后，学生们已经可以独立的用毛笔书写汉字，老师首先教授了“熊猫”二字的写法和正确笔画，学生们在老师提供的熊猫国画形象中挑选了自己喜欢的，开始进行模仿加创新创作，老师则在旁进行指点帮助，课程快要结束的时候，学生们开心的向老师展示自己的作品，最后在作品上留下自己的中文名字，并与自己的作品合影留念。
“熊猫”作为深受学生们喜欢的中国国宝级动物，当与中国水墨画元素结合，让学生们在创作的过程中，增加了对中国元素更深的了解，也对中国文化的喜爱更添一分。
On November 21st, local time in Latvia, the students of the Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia and the Chinese teacher volunteer Zou Yaping spent a happy time with the “Lovely panda.”
The class begins with a cheerful animation “Kung Fu Panda”. The animation uses Chinese traditional ink painting techniques to express the scenes of pandas and bamboo forests. Pandas flexibly play Chinese Kung Fu, which perfectly presents the combination of Chinese elements. Then, the teacher showed the students a lot of pictures of the pandas. The students couldn’t help but praise the panda’s cute, then the teachers and students enjoyed the animated image of the panda and the vivid and interesting “Panda Emoticon Pack”. The funny elements and the panda’s cute The combination of images makes the students laugh. After watching the video of American students coming to the Sichuan Giant Panda Base to interact with real pandas, the students expressed that they also want to go to China to see pandas one day. After understanding the introduction of the panda,students started their paiting. After the previous experience of Chinese painting and calligraphy, the students are been able to write Chinese characters independently with the writing brush. The teacher first taught the word “panda”-the writing method and the correct strokes, everyone selected a image provided by the teacher, and began to imitate and create innovative creations. At the end of the course, the students showed their creations to the teacher happily. They finally leaves their Chinese name on their works and take photoes with it.
“Panda” is a Chinese national treasure animal that is popular among students. When combined with Chinese ink painting elements, students will have a deeper understanding of Chinese elements in the process of creation.
