Featured Activities
Learn Chinese Cooking (Shanghai Cuisine)
Dishes:
* Sweet & Sour Spare Ribs * Red-Cooked Pork * Drunken Chicken * Lion's Head Meatball * Hairy Crab Snacks: * Xiao Long Bao (Steamed Buns) * Stinky Tofu * "Four Heavenly Kings" |
Traditionally called Benbang cuisine, Shanghai cuisine originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1840). Shanghai dishes usually look red and shiny, for they are often pickled in wine and their cooking methods include baking, stewing, steaming, deep-frying, etc.
Shanghai cuisine has formed a complex flavor structure, cooking style and technique norms. It stresses on using condiments and keeping the original flavors of the materials and has features of being fresh, smooth and crispy. Shanghai Dishes aim at lightness in flavor, and beautifulness in garnish. What can be called Shanghai cuisine is epitomized by the use of soy sauce, sugar and alcohol, in the perspective of flavoring. Shanghai is also renowned for its wide collection of delectable snacks. Among those, steamed bun, pan-fried bun and pot-sticker are the most popular. |
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Chinese calligraphy has flourished for several thousand years. The fact that Chinese characters were originally created upon graphical figures such as animals, objects and people renders Chinese writing an incumbent member of the family of arts. It has been developed into a special high-level art.
Chinese calligraphy and ink and wash painting are closely related, since they use similar tools and techniques. Chinese calligraphy and painting distinguish themselves from other arts by their emphasis on motion that is registered as traces on paper, bamboo, silk, stone and wood. The ink, brush, ink, paper, and inkstone are essential implements of calligraphy: they are known together as the Four Treasures of the Study. There are five handwriting styles of calligraphy in a sequence of evolution throughout history, e.g. seal script, clerical script, formal script, running script and cursive script. Among those, the first two are archaic, while the rest three are more commonly used in day-to-day life. |
Learn Chinese Calligraphy
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Experience Tea Ceremony
Wang Lanlan shows you the appropriate method to make different kinds of tea with water in equilavent temperature.
You are also shown how to discriminate over a variety of famous Chinese teas and how to appreciate their qualities. |
Chinese tea culture refers to the methods of preparation of tea, tasting method, the equipment used to make tea and the occasions in which tea is consumed.
The usage of tea as a beverage is first recorded in the Chinese classics Shennong Ben Cao Jing. It was already a common drink during Qin Dynasty (around 200 BC) and became widely popular during Tang Dynasty, when it was spread to Korea and Japan. Trade of tea by the Chinese to Western nations in the 19th century spread tea and the tea plant to numerous locations around the world. There are several special circumstances in which tea is prepared and consumed, such as showing respect, apologizing, expressing gratitude, family gathering. |
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Tai Chi Quan (literal translation "Supreme Ultimate Fist") is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training and its health benefits. It is also typically practiced for a variety of other personal reasons: its hard and soft martial art technique, demonstration competitions, and longevity. As a consequence, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Some of Tai Chi Quan’s training forms are especially known for being practiced at what most people categorize as slow movement, while some other Tai Chi Quan styles have secondary forms of a faster pace.
The concept of Tai Chi (or Taiji) appears in both Taoist and Confucian philosophy, where it represents the fusion or mother of Yin and Yang into a single Ultimate, represented by the Tai Chi symbol. Thus, Tai Chi theory and practice evolved in agreement with many Chinese philosophical principles, including those of Taoism and Confucianism. |
Practise Taichi
Learn with Mr. Wang, a multi-year practitioner, to perceive the state "The soft and the pliable will defeat the hard and the strong", quoted from Laozi as saying. |
Watch Acrobatic Show (ERA-Intersection of Time)
Time: 19:30 daily
Duration: 90 minutes Venue: Shanghai Circus World Cost: CNY 380 |
As a multimillion-dollar stunning acrobatic extravaganza, the first of its kind in China, ERA is a multimedia odyssey whose inspiration is a direct result of the combination of traditional Chinese acrobatic arts and modern technology.
During the show, you will see a comprehensive collection of extraordinary arcrobatic arts, such as juggling, balancing, diving, ballet, aerial stunt, contortion and motor coordination, etc. Incorporating the athletic activities, gymnastic elements, circus and choreography, the ERA will feast your eyes in an enchanting ambience created by multimedia, lighting, sound effect, elaborate costumes, original live music a lot more. |
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More to come ... Opera, Folklores |
