当地时间2022年9月5日晚，为了迎接今年的中国传统节日中秋佳节，谢菲尔德大学孔子学院，于谢大知名的教学楼Diamond Building, 举办了一场别开生面的中国书法工作坊，近20名谢大员工参加了此次书法工作坊。

谢大孔院本土教师陶婷老师担任此次书法工作坊的主讲教师，她首先从汉字象形文字的演变向学员们展示了汉字的神奇魅力，然后以“永”字为例，向学员展示了毛笔的握笔、运笔和汉字基本笔画，进而一步一步引导学生独立完成课堂习作书法“天下太平”。在本场书法工作坊学习过程中，学员们聚精会神，跟随者陶老师的引导和示范，一笔一划地完成了自己的书法习作，非常有成绩感，纷纷表示希望今后有机会继续学习中国书法。

本场迎中秋书法工作坊是自2020年新冠疫情以来，谢大孔院首次举办的线下活动，获得了学员的一致好评！请见以下英文的详细报道。

Mid-Autumn Events: Calligraphy Class Success!

The first instalment of our Mid-Autumn Event Series, our Chinese Calligraphy Workshop, was a resounding success! Our local teacher, Tao Ting, delivered an expert session to a class of talented students... Read on to find out more and see the photos.

On Monday, 5th September, we wanted to do something special to celebrate this year's Mid-Autumn Festival and our calligraphy class, delivered in a workroom at the University of Sheffield's Diamond building was a great way to do it. Our local teacher, Tao Ting, delivered the class to a bustling room of around 20 students, all of whom enjoyed a detailed presentation about the history of the art. This was followed by demonstrations of the various stages required when writing calligraphy, from brush stroke order to writing techniques. The session ended with the students delivering beautiful calligraphy with their very own brushes.

Teacher Tao Ting delivers calligraphy class

Helpers aid the teacher Tao Ting's demonstration

Students were taught about some of the various radicals that make up Chinese characters, and how they've evolved over time as literal drawings of aspects of real life into the stylized characters that they've turned into today. These unique clues about the characters provide fascinating clues about their etymology, ensuring that students weren't just practicing their writing, but really getting into the history and development of the craft as well.

Students practices her calligraphy

Student with her calligraphy work

Student presents his calligraphy work

Students first practiced the unique strokes to make a phrase in Chinese, practicing first on newspaper laid on their table tops and then on yellow practice paper, and then finally on the luscious white parchment paper that gives the base to that genuine beauty and haunting effect that Chinese calligraphy is so famous for.

Students under instruction from Tao Ting

Students enjoy calligraphy demonstrtion

We're delighted about how rewarding and successful our calligraphy class was - we're excited to stage more events in the future to really start to build a community around this wonderful art form.