School Admission Brochure
For the Courses to Experience Traditional Chinese Culture
（中国传统文化体验课程招生简章）

(International Cultural Exchange School of Qufu Normal University)

1.      Recruitment objects：

Foreigners who take interest in the traditional Chinese culture, including wushu, qigong, calligraphy, Confucianism and Chinese language.

2.      Time for study：

All the year round for the courses, begun by the month as the unit (No start of the courses in Feb.). To open school on the 10^th per month, graduation on the 9^th of the next month. Participants may go to the classes any time by personal level. Team entry (over 6 people) may set the learning class and time at will. On graduation, participants may be granted certificates of the Courses to Experience the Traditional Chinese Culture by Qufu Teachers University.

3.  Standing courses：

● Wushu series: tai chi course, changquan(Long fist:all kinds of boxing) boxing course, Southern(nanquan) boxing course, kickboxing(sanda) course, wushu apparatus course, tai chi qigong fan course, tai chi sword course. Teacher: Wang Junfa.

● health series: Baduanjin(Eight excellent movements course,)  WuQinXi(Prolics of Five-animal exercise course, Yijinjing(tondon changing classic) course, LiuZiJue(6-character rhyme) course. Teacher: Wang Junfa.

● Calligraphy series: Calligraphy ABC, Standard calligraphy course, Running script course, Calligraphy study. Teachers: Zhang Aimin, Chen Jian.

● Classical reading series: Lunyu study, Mencius study, Zhuangzi study, Sunzi Warcraft study. Teacher: Chen Dong.

● Practical Chinese series: Pinyin ABC, Chinese Character ABC, Practical sentence patterns Situation conversation. Teachers: Tang Xuening, Hong Bo.

For the applicants of team entry (over 6 people), new course series may be added by needs, for instance: tai chi kungfu fan, tai chi sword, apparatus wushu and traditional Chinese painting etc.

4.  Course time arrangement：

From Monday to Friday per month. Saturday and Sunday for sight-seeing at one’s own expense. The course days are as follows, all for your own free choice of presence.

5.  Weekend itineraries：(return on the same day or the 2^nd day)

● Chinese culture: Confucius Home, Confucius Temple, Confucius Forest, Mencius Home, Mencius Temple, Mencius mother’s forest, Yanzi Temple, Zengzi Temple, Zhougong Temple, Nishan academy of classical learning, Xinglong Tower, Shaohao Mausoleum, Cliff tombs on Mount Jiulong, Weizi tomb, King Lu Huang’s tomb.

● Chinese kungfu sites: Mount Liang, Mount Song, Shaolin Temple, Longmen Grottoes, Han mausoleum on Mount Yunlong, Baoxiang Temple, Dai Temple, Lingyan Temple, Hometown of Wu Song.

● Chinese calligraphy: Exhibition Hall of Han and Wei Dynasties Tablets, Stone sculpture of Wu’s tombs, Stone sculptures on Mount Tieshan, Cliff sculptures on Mount Yishan, Shijingyu Valley on Mount Tai, Hometown of Wang Xizhi.

6.  Tuition (settled by RMB)

The tuition is collected by your actual chosen courses. The fees of the teaching materials and apparatus are handed in by the actual fee. Weekend tours are charged by the offers of the local travel agency. Registration fee: 80 Yuan (once and for all). Lecture fees: 60 Yuan per class hour for wushu or qigong series; 50 Yuan per class hour for calligraphy or classical reading series; 30 Yuan per class hour for Chinese language ABC series.

7.  Board and lodging fees (settled by RMB)

Lodging: Overseas university student dorms. 25 Yuan per person per day for a double room; 50 Yuan per person per day for a single room. Board: varsity student dining-rooms, about 15 Yuan per person per day.

8.  Application methods：

Please contact the office of the International Cultural Exchange School of Qufu Normal University.

Download directly the Enrollment Application Form on the webpage, fill in and mail to:

Post code: 273165 

Address: Jingxuan West Road 21, Qufu City, Shandong Province, PRC

Receiver: Office of the International Cultural Exchange School of Qufu Normal University

For more info, please contact directly: Tel: 86-537-4456157    86-633-3981680

                               Fax: 86-537-4455878    86-633-3981680 

E-mail：LXQSD@mail.qfnu.edu.cn

For wushu or qigong series, you may contact our international popularization division of our school.

     E-mail：wangjunfa@163.com

9.  How to come to our university：

To join Courses to Experience the Traditional Chinese Culture, you may come to China with tourist entry visa (L) or with visiting visa (F). If you need our invitation to apply for the tourist entry visa (L) or visiting visa (F), please contact our university 30 days ahead of schedule.

Those via Yanzhou Railway Station or Qufu Railway Station to Qufu campus; or those via Rizhao Railway Station or Rizhao Port to Rizhao campus are met by our personnel with cars sent by our school for free. Those via Jinan Airport to Qufu campus; or those (over 5 people) via Qingdao Airport or Qingdao Port to Rizhao campus (over 5 people) are met at the airport or port for free. Those via Beijing, Shanghai or wherever else to China can be met at the airport by our cars, but the fee is paid by you.

10.  Course contents：

（1）Wushu series: tai chi course, Northern boxing course, Southern boxing course, kickboxing course, wushu apparatus course, tai chi fan course, tai chi sword course.

● Selective condition: Those with wushu ABC or ahead-of-contest training.

● Teaching contents: Mainly of the wushu basic acts; ahead-of-contest training based on the strengthening of the skill training.

● Class hour arrangement: Each set of course is 60 class hours, 3 class hours per day.

● Teaching materials: Basic Wushu Course, etc. ahead-of-contest training is arranged by related requirements.

● Teaching approaches: Green-hands are chiefly taught by separate acts. Those with better skills are taught by complete teaching methodology.

● Teaching sites: Special wushu hall with carpets.

（2）health qigong series: Baduanjin course, five-animal exercise course, yijinjing course, 6-character rhyme course.

● Selective condition: Those with wushu ABC or ahead-of-contest training.

● Teaching contents: Mainly of the wushu basic acts; ahead-of-contest training based on the strengthening of the skill training.

● Class hour arrangement: Each set of course is 60 class hours, 3 class hours per day.

● Teaching materials: Basic Wushu Course, etc. ahead-of-contest training is arranged by related requirements.

● Teaching approaches: Green-hands are chiefly taught by separate acts. Those with better skills are taught by complete teaching methodology.

● Teaching sites: Special qigong hall with carpets.

（3）Calligraphy series: Calligraphy ABC, Standard calligraphy course, running script course, calligraphy study.

● Selective condition: Those who know certain Chinese characters.

● Teaching contents: Calligraphy ABC chiefly deals with the basic knowledge of the introduction and practice of the tracing in black ink over characters printed in red and simulation of the Chinese characters. Standard calligraphy course deals with chiefly the basic skill practice and appreciation of the standard calligraphy model works. Running script course deals with chiefly the basic skill practice and appreciation of the running script model works. Calligraphy study deals with chiefly the guidance and appreciation of the tablet models and calligraphy models.

● Class hour arrangement: Each set of course is 60 class hours, 3 class hours per day; or 2 class hours per day, each course 40 class hours.

● Teaching materials: Writing brushes, Chinese ink, paper; Yan Zhenqing Standard Calligraphy Course; Wang Xizhi Running Script Course, etc.

● Teaching approaches: Teaching in Chinese with some translation, with recitation sentence by sentence by way of the Chinese pinyin (sound).

● Teaching sites: Classroom special for teaching calligraphy.

（4）Classical reading series: Lunyu study, Mencius study, Zhuangzi study, Sunzi Warcraft study.

● Selective condition: Those with relative reading levels of Chinese, who take interest in classical China.

● Teaching contents: During the study of Lunyu, the common sense of archaic Chinese works is learned; in Mencius study, to deepen the understanding of the Chinese Confucian ideology; in Zhuangzi study, to deepen the understanding of the Chinese Taoist ideological culture; in Sunzi Warcraft study , to deepen the understanding of the Chinese warcraft thought and culture.

● Class hour arrangement: Each set of course is 60 class hours, 3 class hours per day.

● Teaching materials: Using the originals of Lunyu reading, Mencius reading, Zhuangzi reading, Sunzi Warcraft reading.

● Teaching approaches: Teaching in Chinese with some translation, with recitation sentence by sentence by way of the Chinese pinyin (sound).

● Teaching sites: Ordinary classrooms.

（5）Practical Chinese series: Pinyin ABC, Chinese character ABC, practical sentence patterns, situation conversation.

● Selective condition: Zero start point of the Chinese level.

● Teaching contents: Pinyin system deals with the study putonghua pronunciation of all the sounds and intonation with timely correction of your pronunciation. Chinese character ABC deals with the study of how to write Chinese words regularly and correctly, with basic reading skills. Practical sentence patterns deals with the common Chinese sentence patterns used popularly in daily life. Situation conversation deals with the conversation used in daily life, tour, work and business, etc.

● Class hour arrangement: Each set of course is 40 class hours, 2 class hours per day.

● Teaching materials: Chinese pinyin ABC, Chinese character ABC, practical sentence patterns, situation conversation.

● Teaching approaches: Teaching in Chinese with some translation.

● Teaching sites: Ordinary classroom or multimedia phonetic classroom.

11.  Introduction to our wushu teacher：

Wang Junfa, male, was born in 1957, graduated from Wushu Dept. of Shanghai Athletic Institute in 1982. In 1985, he was vice-president of Jining Athletic School, Shandong Province, transferred to Qufu Normal University in 1988. Now he’s professor of the Athletic School of Qufu Normal University. His titles include postgraduate advisor of wushu major, director of the wushu international popularization division of the International Cultural Exchange School, state-level wushu judge (thrice of the chief judge of international wushu contests), chief judge of the national wushu contest 9 times, Grade-one coach of the national health qigong. His social part-time jobs include: vice-secretary in chief of Wushu Association of the Institution of Higher Learning in Shandong Province, member of Wushu Association Scientific and Research Institute of Shandong Province, director of the Minority Athletic Association of Shandong Province.

Prof Wang Junfa has won lots of prizes in the national wushu contests. In 1979, he was the 1^st placer in the national traditional wushu contest. In 1985, he was the 1^st placer in the Minority Athletic Association of Shandong Province; in 1998, he took part in the 7^th International Wushu Contest held in Italy and got two gold medals; in 2004, he acted as the coach of Shandong Wushu Team, and led the team to join the 1^st World Traditional Wushu Festival held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, with 6 golds, 8 silvers and 4 coppers.

Prof Wang Junfa has been to foreign countries lots of times to teach and made great contributions to the overseas exchange of wushu. In 1985, he was invited to Japan by Japan Friendship Association to teach and coach wushu there. From 1993—1995, he was sent by China Culture Ministry to Mauritius to work as a wushu expert; in 1998 he went to teach wushu in Italy and San Marino; in 1999 he went to Italy again to teach wushu; from 2001 to 2002, he went to teach wushu in Saint Petersburg of Russia; in 2005 he was sent to Sri Lanka to teach wushu by the International Wushu Union of the Chinese Wushu Academy.

In 2007, Prof Wang Junfa was invited to act as director of the wushu contest division of 15 th Asian Games, in charge of the preparation of the contests of the 15 th Asian Games for 9 months. He is the No 1 to prepare for the Asian Games in Chinese wushu circle.

In 2008 Prof Wang Junfa acted as deputy director of the wushu contest division for the Beijing Olympic Committee, in charge of the wushu events for the committee. He was widely acclaimed by the International Wushu Union, Asian Wushu Union, and China Wushu Academy. On the morning of Jan. 14, 2009, he was rated as excellent and praised on the 2008 summary conference held in the Olympic Center.

After Beijing Olympics, Prof Wang Junfa was sent to Mauritius and England by Chinese health Qigong Association to teach there and aroused a craze to learn Chinese wushu. In Mauritius, he was met by the president of Mauritius, his wife, the premier, the athletic minister of Mauritius National Youth Athletic Division and the Chinese ambassador in Mauritius. He won the highest honor as a cultural envoy. On Dec. 22, 2008, the Chinese health qigong management center of the National Athletic Bureau held a conference in Beijing to commend those who won remarkable results for the popularization of wushu, health qigong, among whom Prof Wang Junfa is the “Advanced Individual for the National Wushu, health Qigong”.

For many years, Prof Wang Junfa is devoted to the theoretical research of sports and wushu, with the publication of nearly 60 academic theses in some authoritative sports journals and national key journals. In order to join and hold international contests and promote wushu internalization in teaching as the tendency, Wang self-studied English, Russian, Japanese, etc. A 300 thousand-word book of his was published named Wushu Bilingual Course, thus filled up the blank of the same kind of teaching materials in our national traditional athletics.