I am vice president of ChuShan Private Institute of Classic Chinese Language and Traditional Culture. I also worked in the business world for a number of years, as well as the government. My educational background is in economics and statistics. I guess you could say that I do a bit of everything!
Yes, we do think it is one very important issue for both Chinese and any foreigner friends who have real interesting for real pure Chinese wisdom. In recent hundrend years, most of the real Chinese tradition and culture and wisdom were lost. In contrast with those public confusing ideas, the true Chinese language consists of two parts: vernacular Chinese and ancient classical Chinese(although all Chinese use a same set of Han characters). Vernacular Chinese is using for daily life including science and technology learning(that is why it is also called Modern Chinese sometime). Famous vernacular Chinese is Mandarin and Cantonese (In fact these name is used to present the difference of them on accent). And the traditional classical Chinese is used for inheriting the wisdom and culture. Nobody could understand the Chinese culture and traditional wisdom(Confucius, Taoism, FengShui, YinYang, TaiJi etc....) without learning ancient Chinese language.
So I do think ChuShan is one new program: one Unique Chinese Classical Language and Traditional Culture Learning and Experiencing Trip for any foreign friends!
