Message from vchiu

[Anonymous]

I bought a set of "four treasures" for the classroom use. Students love it.
When students study the language, they all like the speaking part. The part they dread the most was writing the character. After I give them the lesson on Chinese calligraphy. It seemed like they changed their attitude toward character writing. Here are two good websites on teaching students the correct strokes on character writing.
href="http://www.cchar.com/">http://www.cchar.com/
href="http://www.bluetec.com.cn/asp/mymandarin/bishun/bihua.htm">http://www.bluetec.com.cn/asp/mymandarin/bishun/bihua.htm

Teaching students how to hold the brush is quite a challenge. Without holding the brush correctly, one cannot write correctly. So far, I did not find a good website on calligraphy lesson. The existing sites that I searched so far either did not hold the brush correctly or did not teach the viewer the correct way of writing the calligraphy. The site teaches the viewer to go over the strokes repeatedly after writing (re-touch). That is a very poor habit that all the teachers ask students not to do. I think another possible resource will be borrowing a good video tape from the local library in giving step-by-step procedure on how to hold the brush and go over basic strokes (see above web site on basic strokes) before letting students write characters on the rice paper practicing newly acquired words that they learned from the Chinese class. [Edit by="vchiu on Aug 1, 10:33:06 PM"][/Edit]