January Daytrips & Studio Classes

Welcome back, CCC friends,

We hope you all have had wonderful holidays!

We have scheduled quite some light hiking or day trips for you to enjoy the beautiful snow scene in the suburbs of Beijing! And don't miss the Longqing Gorge Snow and Lantern Festival if Harbin is too far and cold for you.

If you are thinking some warm indoor activities, then another new rounds of massage, zen meditation, taichi, painting and calligraphy courses begin from this or next week. Hope to see you on some of the studio classes!

This weekend

Light Hiking Around Red Cliff Village & White Rock Wall
Saturday, January 16, 09:00-17:00

This is a moderate hike around a Red Cliff Village and Great Wall constructed by white stones. It is a beautiful village near Beijing's border to Hebei, more authentic and less known than rural areas in near suburbs of Beijing. >>> more

Backstreet Beijing Walk - Red Building of Beida & Cathedral
Sunday, Jan.17,14:00-17:30

Stroll in the old cultural streets at Wusi & Wenjin Street, and others, and view the Red Mansion of old Peking University,Wenjin Street, old palaces of Beijing library, and the "Northern Cathedral of Beijing" >>> more

Peking Opera Workshop
Saturday, Jan.16,14:00-16:00

CCC will invite professional actors of Peking Opera to introduce you to the history, complexity and subtleties of this famous art form. Selected parts from Peking Operas will be performed to explain movements and gestures and voice adaption. >>> more

Farmers' Wholesale Market & Flower Garden Tour
Tuesday,Jan.19,09:00-14:00

Largest wholesale market in the city proper (within the fourth and fifth ring road), with a new set up modern market building on the spot, surrounded by the old style open-air market (a good contrast). It boasts to be the largest in Beijing. >>> more

Hiking Changyucheng Village & Highest Wall
Saturday, Jan.23, 08:00-18:30

Come join our five to six hours of tough hiking onto Changyucheng Section of the Great Wall in Yanqing County and border to Hebei , which boasts to have one of Beijing' s highest Great Wall towers and fantastic views! >>> more

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Saturday,Jan.23,16:00-22:00

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. Fireworks and ice slides add to the festival's fun. >>> more

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Sunday,Jan.24,16:00-22:00

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. Fireworks and ice slides add to the festival's fun. >>> more

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Tuesday,Jan.26,16:00-22:00

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. Fireworks and ice slides add to the festival's fun. >>> more

Beijing Longqing Gorge Ice Sculpture & Lantern Tour
Saturday,Jan.30,16:00-22:00

Beijing Longqing Gorge is best known for its outdoor gallery of ice sculptures carved into animals and figures of all shapes and sizes, When illuminated at night they create wonderful visuals. Fireworks and ice slides add to the festival's fun. >>> more

Hiking Around Lily & Flower Wood Villages
Saturday, Jan.30, 08:30-16:30

We will drive to Xiazhuang to walk along the path to chestnut orchards, and Lily’s village with a temple and a small market, and then climb the rocky hills till we arrive Flower Wood Village. >>> more

Songzhuang Contemporary Artists Village Tour
Sunday, Jan.31, 09:00-16:00

Songzhuang Village is China's largest contemporary artist community. It is different with 798 Art Zone crowded with galleries. CCC makes appointments with a handful of artists who will allow you into their farmer's homes or rental studios. >>> more

Light Hiking around Glazed Roof Tile Village
Wednesday, Feb.3, 09:00-17:00

The so called "Glazed Roof Tile" Village used to have many imperial kilns in the entire village, providing golden tiles for the Forbidden City and royal buildings. Now the tradition is kept. Family kilns are still available and in use. >>> more

Day-trip: Dragon Village, Taoist Temple & Silver Fox Cave
Saturday, Feb.6, 09:00-18:30

Visit a remote taoist temple and meet the taoist priests in the suburb of Beijing, then head to the Silver Fox Cave, enjoy the spectacular sights in the karst cave with the unusual formations and stone flowers, and boating along the river. >>> more

Live Zen Practice & Meditation
Every Thursdays, 19:30-21:30

Join us each week for an insight into the teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism. We'll be guided on our journey of self-discovery by a Buddhist layman and learn about Zen through its music, its stories, its art, its rituals & martial arts. >>> more

Chinese Landscape Painting Beginer's Course
Mondays, Jan.18-Feb.8,19:00-21:00

Meet different styles of CCC guest artists, pick up the brush and try on rice paper the traditional Chinese Ink & Water Painting! >>> more

Taichi (taijiquan) Course
Monday, Jan.18-Feb.8,19:30-21:00

Taichi, a moving form of yoga and meditation combined, is ancient Chinese meditative exercise for the body, aiming to foster a calm and tranquil mind. CCC's Chen Style Taichi master speaks English and has experience in teaching Westerners. >>> more

Calligraphy Beginner's Course
Tuesdays, Jan.19-Feb.9,10:00-11:30

Conducted in English, the class teaches everything, from meaning and evolution of the characters, stroke techniques to related culture. You don't have to be able to write Chinese already, just have to be enthusiastic and be willing to hold a brush >>> more

Cookery: hand-pulled noodles and dumplings
Tuesday, Jan.19,19:00-21:00

Try pulling dough into Beijing style thin longevity noodles in a minute! And then make dumpling (jiaozi) with two different fillings and flavours. CCC invites professional cook to instruct you for these two marvelous culinary skills. >>> more

Tying Chinese Knot: Bracelet
Wednesday, Jan.20, 09:30-12:00

Learn to make the auspicious knots from CCC folk artists Ms Wang, and work out your own knots (knots, necklace, bracelet, butterfly or lily shoes, and other patterns of crafts), and hang them up on your neck or your handbag. >>> more

Chinese Bird-flower Painting Beginer's Course
Thursdays, Jan.21-Feb.11,10:00-12:00

Chinese ink & water painting is a thousand-year tradition, and the xieyi style (free-hand) is one of the most unique style of Chinese painting. The CCCC painting course is specially designed for expatriates. >>> more

Hands-on: Chinese papercutting
Saturday, Jan.23, 14:00-16:00

Take up scissors and learn to cut traditional folk patterns and decorations from CCC's folk artist, then use them to ornament your home ! >>> more

Hands-on: Chinese Grass Weave
Sunday, Jan.24, 14:00-16:00

Learn to make grass weave crafts with CCC master. >>> more

One Time Overview Instruction of Taichi
Wednesday, Jan.27, 10:00-11:30

Come and join this one time overview instruction of taichi, and learn all about Taichi from movements to breathing and mind cultivation. The English-speaking taichi master will guide you through this mind/body experience. >>> more

Meandering Mandarin - Tailor's Shop
Saturday, Jan.30, 14:00-17:00

The Meandering Mandarin course is an eight-week language program with most common ten, real-life situations that people always encounter in their daily life and pairs this excursion trip with a formal two-hour language lesson. >>> more

Talk/Hands-on: Spring Festival & Spring Couplets
Saturday, Jan.30, 14:30-16:30

Learn all about Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) - meanings, customs and traditional activities. And hear the meaning of chun lian (spring couplets)-- a must for every Chinese family during the Spring Festival! Then try your hand writing them. >>> more

Foot Reflexology Course
Mondays & Wednesday, Feb.1-10, 15:00-17:00

4-session foot reflexology course will be instructed by licensed traditional Chinese physician therapist. English narration. Each class is small group with adequate practical exercises. >>> more

Harbin - Ice Lantern Festival & Snow Sculpture Expo
Jan 16-17 / Jan 30-31 / Feb 6-7 /Feb 15-16

Go by air or overnight train to Harbin to catch the famous Snow Sculpture Exhibition and Ice Lantern Festival; appreciate the old Russian style architecture; drive into the Siberian Tiger Park; and dine in the Ice Bar and Russian Restaurant! >>> more

Subtropical Hakka Round Buildings & City Xiamen
February 15-17

Get to know Fujian province, the southeastern end of China's mainland facing Taiwan across the strait. Xiamen, beautiful seaport city with Gulangyu Island; then dirve into the villages in the mountains south and west of Fujian for the magical earthen >>> more

Yunnan's Yuanyang (Hani Rice Terrace) & Tropical Xishuangbanna
Feb 15-20

Yuanyang, southeast of Yunnan, is renowned for its rice terraces crafted out by bare hands by the Hani people since one thousand years ago and even today, the world largest nature wonder. Luoping is famous for its blossoming of rapeseed flowers. >>> more

Sichuan's Fairyland Jiuzhaigou & Leshan Buddha
Feb 16-20

Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area and Huanglong Parklands are two famous World Natural Heritage sites. Jiuzhaigou offers spectacular landscapes with alpine features: crystal clear and serene lakes, snow-capped mountains, countless waterfalls and lush forests. >>> more

Tibetan Festival Tour From Qinghai To Gansu
Feb.25-Mar.02

Catch up the Tibetan New Year festival and the annual "sunning of the Buddha" ceremony in the Tibetan towns of Tongren in Qinghai and Xiahe in Gansu. You will be enchanted by the atmosphere & pilgrims and Tibetan monks in their saffron robes. >>> more

Nanjing's Plum Blossom Festival Tour
Feb.27-28

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 306 km (189 miles) NW of Shanghai. First the nation's capital in the early years of the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), then the capital of the Republic of China from 1911 to 1937, and now capital of Jiangsu Province >>> more