Author: Wen Xing

Time flies but memories last.

Heavenly Lake, Urumqi, 8/20/18

At the Top of Red Hill, Urumqi, 8/21/18

Visiting a Kazakh Yurt, Urumqi, 8/22/18

Jiaohe Ancient City, Turpan, 8/22/18

Imin Minaret, Turpan, 8/23/18

Dancing under the Grape Vines, Turpan, 8/23/18

By the Crescent Spring at Mogao Grottos, Dunhuang, 8/25/18

Riding on the Ancient Wall, Xi'an, 8/26/18

With the Tang Dynasty Court Ladies, Xi'an, 8/26/18

In Front of Drum Tower, Xi'an, 8/26/18

Among the Terra-Cotta warriors, Xi'an, 8/27/18

At the Bonefire Party, Phoenix Town, Xiangxi, 8/28/18

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

We couldn't believe that we graduated. Professor Ru, Associate Dean of the School of Chinese Language and Culture, was delievering a brief graduation speech.

Ru laoshi and Zhao laoshi gave the graduation certificates to each of us.

We also presented our gifts to our teachers.

Thank you, everyone, and yes, we are 人!

On Friday, August 17, 2018, we presented our own works of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting in Silent Lotus Hall 静莲斋 in Beijing:

Here are selected masterpieces and artists:








The last one reminds us of Lu You's 陆游 (1125—1210) lyric poem, 零落成泥碾作尘，只有香如故.

On August 11, 2018, we enjoyed an unexpected surprise--Xu Bin's masterpiece 天书:

Many of us tried to do calligraphy in Xu's script:

Andy and Ben were interviewed by NOWRE:

In the weekend of August 4, 2018, we visited the Mountain Resort for Escaping the Summer Heat in Chengde, Hebei Province. We were blessed by turning the Buddhist bells:

We stopped (停) at a imperial pavillion (亭):

We learnt stories of Empress Cixi:

We enjoyed talking to local children:

Of course, we were happy with the Manchurian restaurant:

August 1, 2018, we had a Peking Opera night in Beijing:

Inside the Liyuan Theater:

Nice to see "Farewell My Concubine" in person:

Walking to our classroom:

Zhang laoshi joined us for Chinese Language Table:

Interviewing Tang laoshi:

Sailers or pirates?

Blue sky in Beijing...

On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, we visited the most important Daoist temple in Beijing, Baiyun Guan 白云观, built in 741 A.D.

"Hitting the Gold Coin" at Wofeng Bridge:

Burning incense:

Together with the divine "horse", te 特：

On Saturday, July 21, 2018, we visited the remarkable underground Buddhist stone sutra collection in Yunju Temple 云居寺, Fangshan 房山.

Amitabha! 阿弥陀佛！

On our way to the earliest stone sutra caves:

Original early 7th century steps:

In front of Leiyin dong 雷音洞, the earliest existant Buddhist palace in China, dated 616 A.D.



Dartmouth Green!

In the Underground Palace of Stone Sutra:

Enlightened Cat in Yunju Temple:

On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, we went to the National Centre for the Performing Arts, where the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presented "Rome about the Classics: from Mussorgsky to the Beatles."

In front of the Big Egg, NCPA:

Inside the Big Egg:



We were on the China Global Television Network: