Feb. 27 was the Turkey New Year in Tibetan calendar. 112 Tibetan students from Foshan No.1 High School, class Tibet came to Foshan Qicong School to make hand-made soaps and dim sum to celebrate Tibetan New Year together in that morning.

(making dim sum together)

Foshan Qicong School is a special school for students who are deaf-mutes or with intellectual impairments. Students from Qicong taught Tibetan students the process of making Chinese dim sum hand by hand with patience, kneading the dough, moulding the shape, coating the egg yolk. The Tibetan students tried their best to understand the gesture language. Dawa Quzhen, a Tibetan student, put every small dough on the electronic scale and followed every step seriously. “It is easy to make dim sums and we can communicate with each other by gesture language easily. I have learned the importance of carefulness and patience from them,” she said.

 
Another group of Tibetan students experienced “mobility orientation”. Each of them put on the eye patch and walked from the playground to the fourth floor of the teaching building only by a blind crutch and braille tiles. Although teachers utilized clapping sound to direct the way, the students still spent almost half an hour to complete this 8-minute walk. Tibetan student Danzeng Jinzha said that, “It is quite difficult in all black and no directions, and I have fallen on the ground several times where there are no braille tiles.” He expressed that he would initiatively help someone in need on the street afterwards.

(Tibetan students in Foshan No .1 High School)

Students from Tibet class also visited Guangdong JMA Aluminum Profile Factory (Group) Co., Ltd. on the Tibetan new year day. They had a deep experience of the modern production in the workshop. The chairman of the broad Cao Zhanbin well prepared a speech by taking his life experience as model to encourage Tibetan students to inherit Chinese hard-working and intellectual culture. He expected that Tibetan students could cherish the chance to study in Foshan and to become a person with philosophy and aspirations.

The director of Foshan No.1 High School Class Tibet, Xu Mintong indicated that, they organized a series of functions in the Tibetan New Year with aims to let Tibetan students feel the festival atmosphere and lead them into the society to make cross-cultural communication. “Cross-cultural communication is a process of adjustment, fusion and development of culture,” Xu said. She also expected that Tibetan students could get used to the education and life here and inherit excellent culture as soon as possible by means of various functions.

(2016 Tibetan Culture Autumn Festival held in Foshan No.1 High School)

(written by Clair)