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STARTALK Student Program At the Huntington Library and Garden, San Marino, CA

STARTALK Student Program At the Huntington Library and Garden, San Marino, CA. Explore the Chinese language, culture and arts through the Garden of Flowing Fragrance at the Huntington Library and Garden David Wu Southern California Council of Chinese Schools.

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STARTALK Student Program At the Huntington Library and Garden, San Marino, CA

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  1. STARTALK Student Program At the Huntington Library and Garden, San Marino, CA Explore the Chinese language, culture and arts through the Garden of Flowing Fragrance at the Huntington Library and Garden David Wu Southern California Council of Chinese Schools

  2. Essential Questions to Guide this Program and Focus Teaching/Learning • What are the historical background, elements, and major features of Su-Zhou gardens? • What are the major features of Chinese traditional culture, history, cultural practices, cultural products, values, arts and literature, poetry, festivals, customs, and lifestyles? • What were the professions, culture, and lifestyles of those ancient Chinese who built Su-Zhou gardens?

  3. Instructional Strategies • On-site learning at the Chinese garden • Teacher-student interaction through questions and discussion • Group work • Presentations • Role playing • Internet research • Multimedia Learning: Audio tape listening, Video watching • Script writing and play performances • Assessment

  4. Learning in 5C and 3 modes • Learn culture through literature, calligraphy, poetry, art, and philosophy of the garden • Communicate with visitors as docent • Compare cultural differences with Western gardens versus Chinese classical gardens; palace gardens versus private gardens • Connect to Chinese architecture and history • Servicing communities as volunteers

  5. A Comparison of Western and Chinese Gardens

  6. Authentic materials can be found in the entrance, bridges, pavilions, windows, covered walkways, as well as places from which to view the landscape.

  7. The Freshwater Pavilion – The entrance of tea shop is decorated with a poetic couplet

  8. Authentic materials of the garden Translation for the couplets adorning on structures • Love for the Lotus Pavilion • Though rooted in the mud, how could the lotus be sullied • Teahouse • Enter as a hundred cares vanish; Laugh as the great river expands • Tea shop • The morning flavor lingers in the cold spring water issuing from the rocks; Spring blossoms waft from the new tea steeped in clay teapot

  9. Camellias are carved into the wood of structures of the Hall of Jade Camellia

  10. The traditional elements of Chinese garden design in full view from all windows

  11. The Love for the Lotus Pavilion contains unique architectural choices

  12. Craftsmen Carved wood by hands at the garden

  13. No nails are used in Chinese architecture, which instead employ wooden latches.

  14. The shape of the wall’s top symbols a dragon’s back

  15. Round shapes in the Terrace of Jade Mirror represent perspective and richness

  16. The Pavilion of the Three Friends, with pines, bamboo, and plums around the pavilion to symbolize that friendship can stand in hardship (cold weather).

  17. The Jade Ribbon Bridge symbolizesrichness and wealth

  18. Water and rocks create harmony

  19. A 500 ton rock, shipped from China’s Lake Tai, in the shape of a dragon, stands on the lake shore

  20. Present their knowledge as docents

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