WIST, March 31 -- The School of Economics and Management (SEM) launched a Chinese cultural experience tour — visiting the Yellow Crane Tower to further assist the international students enrolled in 2024 spring in understanding Chinese culture and history.
"It's better to see than to hear!" The students exclaimed. They used to get to know the Yellow Crane Tower through poetry and textbooks, while today they climbed the tower to admire it and personally experienced the artistic conception in poetry.
They visited the huge ceramic mural work themed white clouds and yellow cranes, the marble inscriptions of Record of the Yellow Crane Tower by Yan Boli of Tang Dynasty (618－907), the embroidered portraits of Tang and Song (960－1279) Dynasty Celebrities, the scroll of Panorama of the Yangtze River and other scrolls, as well as the buildings such as Shengxiang Pagoda, the Stone Tablet Pavilion, and the Temple Gate. They also perused the poem The Yellow Crane Tower, a masterpiece of Cui Hao (？—754).
On the way back and forth, they experienced Wuhan's unmanned ticketing buses and subways, and warmly greeted the staff in Chinese. Meesuwan Sarawade from Thailand said, "Chinese culture is vast and profound. Coming here (China), I decide to be earnest about learning Chinese and understand more about Chinese culture."
The visit was guided by Yuan Lijia, counselor for international students of SEM, and two student assistants.
