Resturant 2

Today I went to a restaurant named Henry’s Home to have a dinner with my parents to celebrate for my mother who had just been back from Europe.
I arrived the restaurant at 7:00 PM. Since we entered the restaurant an old waiter who had a challenge on horizontal guide us to the dinning table and left the menu to us then went back to the door. I thought his was so cool just like the butler in a castle at the age of Victoria who never say anything, just did all the things master let him to do instead.
When my father was reading the menu, I listened to the back ground music which is a very peaceful and romantic classic piano music and feel relaxed.
I like there was a great restaurant, because I had a good emotion, not because of the food. Foods there were not great but not bad. It was much different from the food we usually eat, at least most Chinese will eat the dishes with the staple food like rice. The way to eat there was also different. As all the people know, Chinese people will eat food in one big bowl or plate, but Western people will every one eat its own food in a smaller plate. Our Chinese use chopsticks to send food into our mouths, but western people use knives and forks instead.

Exhibition 2

Today, I went to the Nanjing Art Gallery to watch the calligraphy exhibition. All the exhibits there were written by a student from the Nanjing Foreign Language School named Cheng Miaoran. After we entered the hall, the first thing hit our heart is a very huge paper with 4 letters on it, Self-discipline and Social Commitment, gave a big stir. I couldn’t understand how a girl in junior 3 could write like that. There is a piece of paper was sticked on the wall with full of small words. We are all interested in it. We got close to the paper to read it more clearly. There was a small story written on it. Cheng Miaoran spend the time of more than 1 month on this 4 words. I was so admire of this girl. It was really hard to keep writing 4 words for more than a month.
The first floor of the Nanjing Art Gallery is all for Cheng Miaoran as the place of the exhibition. There are at least more than 50 pieces of art work in the exhibition hall are all of them are her masterpieces. It was first time for me to see these so many calligraphy works.
I looked around the exhibition hall with Mike and Joe, finally I found my favorite calligraphy work of all. My favorite calligraphy work is an ancient text called the Arcadia records. It’s a story about a fisherman who went a wonderful world that almost no one knows it. He was treated very well because he was the first person who came to there place in these hundred of years. The life in another world is much better than the world the fisherman lived in. This story shows the dream of people in the past thousands of years which is a world without war, disease and greed.
This calligraphy art work is written in regular script which is the form most of calligraphy art work used. It is one of the most common kinds of handwriting in the realm of Chinese calligraphy. But I just think one is the best one, even I don’t have any reasons. It much likes the original Chinese calligraphy. This kind of script is used by most of Chinese. People always said: we could know the writer’s characteristic from the letters he writes. Maybe I am not very good at this, but I could see her put most of her effort on practicing calligraphy. Her calligraphy is definitely like a square, which is one of the most important conditions to be a good calligraphy work.
In conclusion, calligraphy is one of not only Chinese traditional art but also one of a big treasure in the world’s art. As the students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School who is going to face the whole world we should put more of our effort on getting the knowledge about China. We even should spend some time study these kind of art so we could let the world know Chinese Art better.