Discover authentic activities across China's most fascinating cities
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Learn Chinese calligraphy with professional English-speaking instructors. Use traditional brush, ink, rice paper and inkstone to explore calligraphy history and create your own artwork.
Experience Peking Opera, China's national treasure. Learn basic movements, singing and face painting. Discover 200+ years of opera history and try on costumes.
Experience Chinese calligraphy and tea ceremony in an authentic studio. Begin with jasmine tea ritual and incense ceremony, learn brush painting fundamentals and create your own artworks.
Learn Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy at Xiling Seal Engravers' Society. Experience ink wash painting and calligraphy surrounded by West Lake scenery.
Immerse in Tibetan culture. Learn to make butter tea and tsampa, understand Tibetan Buddhism, experience thangka painting.
Learn Yangliuqing New Year painting, one of China's four major woodblock New Year paintings. Experience the complete process and create your own work.
Learn Tianjin Nirenzhang clay figure art. Under master's guidance, learn basic sculpting and painting techniques to create clay works.
Learn Dunhuang mural copying at Mogao Academy. Understand mural history and use traditional mineral pigments to copy mural sections.
Learn ancient writing on Han bamboo slips. Understand Dunhuang Han slips' historical value and create your own bamboo slip work.
Participate in Luoyang Peony Culture Festival. View various peonies, learn peony painting and flower arrangement.
Learn Wuzhen traditional lantern making. Understand lantern history and types, learn bamboo framing, paper covering and painting.
Learn to make Huizhou traditional fish lanterns. Understand their cultural meaning, learn bamboo framing and painting, participate in lantern dance.