【Commentary】Vocal performance class, calligraphy class, Q version doll class, Chinese painting class... On the evening of April 4, the spring class of the 10 Shanghai Citizen Art Night School officially opened. The evening school will continue to establish branches and teaching points through the public cultural space at the doorstep, and provide a series of online live broadcasts, offline live teaching and cloud experience courses. The courses cover traditional culture, fashion culture, intangible cultural heritage skills, Jiangnan culture and regional culture.
It is understood that the spring class of Shanghai Citizen Art Night School in 2023 will take the Shanghai Mass Art Museum as the main school, and more than 20 branches will be set up in conjunction with a total of 123 teaching points, 278 courses, and 6507,6 students. Among them, the main school took the lead in opening <> advanced classes, and opened the "Jiangnan Dim Sum Class" for foreigners.
That night, the reporter saw in the "Jiangnan Dim Sum Class" of the main school that many foreigners came to the night school early and couldn't wait to "try their skills".
[contemporaneous] British trainee John
I like to cook Western food, I don't know much about Chinese food, but I like to eat (Chinese food). I would love to learn to cook Chinese food, that's why I'm here.
【Contemporaneous】Brazilian trainee Matthew
We often cook our own country's food, but after this training, we hope to start making Chinese food as well. It's not just a learning opportunity, it's also an opportunity to practice. This is the first lesson and we were curious.
Zhongjun was the chef of the Jin Jiang Hotel and the Marriott Hotel. In a 32-year career, he has mastered superb skills in Shanghai cuisine and dim sum. As a result, he has been invited to participate in Chinese food promotion events in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia and the United States. As the teacher of the "Jiangnan Dim Sum Class", he also made sufficient preparations, and the ingredients such as glutinous rice flour, wheat seedling juice, bean paste, and raisins were neatly placed in front of the students.
【During the same period】 "Jiangnan Dim Sum Class" teacher Zhong Jun
The first phase is to teach 12 kinds of dim sum, this time is the first foreign class, then we teach them is basically relatively simple, some dim sum that ordinary people in the Jiangnan area prefer to eat. For example, we have more pictographic snacks, pumpkin balls, corn shoots. Gastronomy is also a culture, and we want to (enhance) communication through this culture of gastronomy. I also hope that they can like our Chinese dim sum and like our Shanghai.
According to reports, after the start of the spring class, the main school will work with all branches to plan and design the content of the autumn class, and open evening courses for more people outside Shanghai to spread the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The autumn class will also further expand the coverage of teaching points and the number of courses, encourage more professional institutions and the most beautiful public cultural spaces to join the evening school teaching points, and double the scale again.
Reporting by reporters Xu Yin and Kang Yuzhan from Shanghai
Responsible Editor: [Yu Xiao]