South China Normal University’s 2020 “Chinese Bridge” online group exchange program successfully concluded

From January 11 to 18, 2021, the School of International Culture of South China Normal University successfully held the 2020 “Chinese Bridge” Online Group Exchange Program. This 8-days “Chinese Bridge” online project is sponsored by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and undertaken by South China Normal University. This project features “Lingnan Culture”, leading the students to embark on a colorful “Lingnan Journey”. The courses including Chinese language courses and video courses with the themes of “Lingnan Culture”, ” Lingnan Food Tour”, and “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area City’s Light” as well as talent courses such as paper-cutting and Tai Chi. From multiple angles, it showed the students the features of Lingnan culture in Guangzhou and other cities in the Greater Bay Area in all aspects.
Due to COVID-19, the “Chinese Bridge” project was carried out through the “Chinese Plus” platform in the form of “live teaching + video courses”, but received more than one hundred students from from Latvia, Vietnam, Japan, France and France Reunion enrolled enthusiastically and successfully completed all courses and obtained a certificate of completion. Among them, 18 students from Latvia, including Diana Komova, Ilona Balode, and Emilija Marcenko, as well as 11 students from France, Japan, and Vietnam, were rated as “excellent campers”.
As the materials for the talent class are difficult to purchase in Latvia, South China Normal University purchased them in China in December 2020 and mailed them to the Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia. The Confucius Institute in Latvia sent them to all students before the start of the winter camp. Professor Shang Quanyu (Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia) mentioned in the closing ceremony that he would like to thank the South China Normal University for providing talent class materials, which brought warmth and strength to them in the epidemic. And Dean Shang also mentioned that this project provides a valuable opportunity for Chinese lovers in Latvia to learn Chinese and understand Chinese culture, especially Lingnan culture.
Sixty-nine students from Latvia with different ages and different careers signed up to participate this project. After the completion of the “Chinese Bridge” winter camp, we also received a lot of praise from our students. Wei Lai (Emilija Marcenko) said that although it is a bit regretful that the project is online, but for her, the eight days of intensive Chinese learning has effectively improved her Chinese. She hope that she will have the opportunity to participate such project in the future.
During the “Chinese Bridge” winter camp, the students fully showed their strong love for Chinese and interacted with the teacher and did their homework actively. Beyond doubt, the talent class is the most popular class among students. The students learned about the culture of the “Zodiac” from the paper-cutting of the Chinese zodiac, experienced the charm of the Chinese fan from the production of the blue and white porcelain fan, and understood the drama characters from the painting of the Peking Opera facial makeup and felt the beauty of Chinese costumes from “Clay cheongsam”.
2020 “Chinese Bridge” Online Winter Camp of South China Normal University-Lingnan Cultural Features Program has a variety of courses, and experienced and talented teachers to teach students. We believe that through the eight-day study, everyone has a better understanding of South China Normal University, Guangzhou, and Lingnan culture. We hope that the students participating in this project can continue to explore the wonderful Chinese world in the future, and hope that their fate with Chinese will last forever!

2021年1月11日至18日，由教育部中外语言交流合作中心主办，华南师范大学国际文化学院承办的2020年“汉语桥”线上团组交流项目圆满落幕。此次项目以“岭南文化”为特色，带领学生们开启了一段丰富多彩的“岭南之旅”。课程内容既有以“岭南文化”、“美食之旅”、“粤港澳大湾区城市之光”为主题的视频课程，也有汉语课、剪纸、太极等才艺课程。通过多个角度尽可能全方面的给学员展现了广州以及大湾区其他城市的岭南文化的风采。
本次的“汉语桥”项目因受新冠疫情影响，决定采用“中文联盟”平台以“直播授课+视频课程”的形式开展。活动信息一经发布，就收到了来自拉脱维亚、越南、日本及法国留尼瓦等多个国家和地区一百多位学生的踊跃报名。这些学员们积极学习，顺利完成了全部课程并获得了结业证书。其中来自拉脱维亚的帝安娜（Diana Komova）、伊洛娜（Ilona Balode）、魏莱（Emilija Marcenko）等18位学员以及来自法国、日本、越南的11位学员被评为“优秀营员”。魏莱（Emilija Marcenko）表示，虽然此次项目是线上进行的，但是对她来说八天高强度的中文学习让她的中文得到了有效的提高，希望以后也可以有机会再次参加此类的汉语课程的学习。
“汉语桥”冬令营上课期间，学员们充分展示了对中文的喜欢，积极与老师互动发言，认真做作业。最受学生喜爱的当然还是才艺课了，学员们从生肖剪纸中了解了“十二生肖”的文化，从青花瓷扇子的制作过程中体会到了中国扇的魅力，从绘制京剧脸谱中明白到了戏剧人物的形象意义，从粘土旗袍的制作中体味到了中国服饰之美。
由于才艺课的材料在拉脱维亚很难购买到，华南师范大学于2020年12月在中国购买后邮寄到了拉脱维亚大学孔子学院，再由拉脱维亚孔子学院在冬令营开始前纷发到了各个学生手中。尚劝余教授（拉脱维亚大学孔子学院中方院长）在闭幕典礼中提到，感谢华南师大不远万里提供才艺课材料，这给疫情中的他们带来了温暖与力量。并且尚院长还谈到，此次项目为拉脱维亚的汉语爱好者提供了一个宝贵的学习中文，了解中国文化尤其是岭南文化的机会。
华南师范大学2020年“汉语桥”岭南文化特色项目课程多样、制作精良，并有经验丰富、才华横溢老师给学员们上课。相信大家通过为期八天的学习，对华南师范大学、对广州、对岭南文化都有了更进一步的认识与感悟。希望参加此次项目的学员们今后能够继续探索奇妙的中文世界，希望你们与汉语的缘分能够天长地久！