Huang Jianjun's Teaching Characteristics

Huang Jianjun, the Chinese president of the University of Delaware in the United States, personally taught the class students and taught China calligraphy. According to the students' little knowledge of Chinese characters but strong interest in China culture, he systematically introduced the legend of Cangjie's word-making, the new discovery of modern archaeology and the magical Oracle Bone Inscriptions from the origin of Chinese characters, and guided students to identify Chinese characters by using the pictographs in ancient Chinese characters.

The philosophical structure and vivid pictographs of Chinese characters give students a new understanding of ancient Chinese characters. They are surprised to find that the meaning of Chinese characters is so rich, but they know that it can be so simple. Sometimes the teacher wrote a pictograph on the blackboard, and the students below actually said its meaning in unison. They even shouted "How interesting!" The enthusiasm of the students greatly inspired the teacher and strengthened his confidence in "teaching foreigners who don't understand Chinese characters to learn calligraphy". He changed the traditional teaching method of regular script, and boldly focused on ancient Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and Xiao Zhuan, which made students learn easily and interestingly. Many students said that they would persist in studying, practice hard and strive for success for a long time.